please welcome alexandra pelosi.eers and applause] nice to see you again. >> thank you. >> stephen: thanks for coming on. >> thanks for having me. >> stephen: you are an emmy-winning film maker. you made journeys with george, diaries of a political tourist, right america. feeling wrong. your new documentary starting when? >> fourth of july, of course. >> stephen: citizen u.s.a. you documented people all over the united states being sworn in to become u.s. citizens. >> did you read it? >> stephen: no. >> yes, i went to all 50 states to meet new american citizens to find out why they wanted to become american citizens. >> stephen: to steal our jobs. [laughter] right? >> they actually bring jobs, too. there are people with ph.ds. not just people swimming the river. there are people with ph.d's. a man from google he wasn't born here. >> stephen: he wasn't. >> no they don't all steal our jobs. >> stephen: which ones do you hate? >> i like the dutch because my husband is dutch. he inspired the road trip. >> stephen: he was

[laughter] and my guest alexandra pelosi made a documentary about immigrants becoming u.s.. [laughter] the pope wrote his first tweet today. he is truly the vessel through which god wastes time. [laughter] this is "the colbert report." ["the colbert repor captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( applause ) [cheers and applause] >> stephen: thank you very much. very kind. [cheers and applause] welcome to the report, everybody. thank you for joining us. [cheers and applause] thank you so much. [cheers and applause] thank you, very

it is called "citizens usa" and it is the work of alexandra pelosi who is the daughter of course of housey pelosi. take a look. >> i wait a long time for this day. >> i love this day. >> i would rank this day of my very top of the line of my best days of my life. >> it was the happiest day of my life. >> god bless america. >> alexander pelosi joining us live now. thank you for joining us. i saw a preview of the documentary last week when i shsaw the clip and almost moved to tears when i saw the people who are so excited to have the united states as their home. what inspired you? the debates on how to handle immigration and amnesty or what? >> well, this is a personal story for me, because my husband is dutch and he came to america and became a american citizen, and i went to the naturalization ceremony on ellis island, and i wondered how they did it in other states. i thought, i know, i want to go check out the other ceremonies in other states, so i went to all 50 states to look at the rituals of how they celebrate citizenship across america. >> and you also chronicled celebrities coming

alexandra pelosi joins us now. why did you do this?om holland. i went to his naturalization ceremony and met all these people who chose to become americans. from talking to them, i realized how much they appreciated this country in ways that people who were born here sometimes take for granted. that's what inspire immediate to go to all 50 states. >> i have to ask you this, alexandra. your observation that maybe people here take it for granted, don't you think that's the case in a lot of countries, especially wealthy countries? >> of course. people just forget. they're so used to it. like medicine. you can go to the score sto r and get medicine any time you want or you have pizza delivery or 911. all these little things that we forget that we just have to -- >> or can you trust your government. in some countries you can't even trust your own government. we take a census here in this country. we have to be very respectful of people who may have to fear the government they left. i have been to some naturalization ceremonies before. if yo