labinski opened this issue on Apr 19, 2005 ยท 9 posts
labinski posted Tue, 19 April 2005 at 6:39 PM
Frank is to be admired as a fine human being. To come to this country ,and desire to stay, carries no qualm. My family came from Switzerland in 1922 and there was a rush to get citizenship...there was a quota system on several ethnic groups at the time. English was the only language allowed. All hints that any allegiance to another country were harbored were not tolerated. The problem as I see it was my grandmother was 16 and not with her parents...but with her sister and husband.A different kind of fear, but it drove them to seek citizenship as quicky as possible. I also don't think trucks coming in from Mexico should be able to avoid fees paid by american truckers as one benefit of NAFTA. Every truck of cars coming from south of the border gets the auto companies an exta few hunded in profit. They should have to pay those fees too.