MY ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION RANT - CHICAGO STYLE!
Ya' gotta be kidding with 'NO VISA FOR BRIDESMAID" (Sunday Chicago Tribune - July 9, 2006 - front page)
This young Polish woman should be given a visa, a passport, a red carpet welcome and a couple of nights in a suite at the Drake. Then make reporter Oscar Avila have lunch with her so they can discuss the REAL immigration problem -- and it AIN'T illegal Europeans (who get summarily shipped back when discovered).
I am a transplanted Chicagoan living in southern California. I also lived many years in Mexico and I am an interpreter/translator by education. I would happily urge the California Governator (Arnold) and our Congresspersons to accept ALL of Illinois' illegal Europeans for an equal number of our illegals currently in California. We have a few million here. They came with NO visa, NO passport, NO job, NO skills, NO education, NO English. So at least you guys can more or less FIND your Polish, Russians, Greeks, Italians, whatever... We have no idea where our several million illegals are...unless we stand in downtown Santa Ana and yell "Migra" (Immigration) or go ask 3/4 of the patients in any of the local e.r. facilities that are still open. (Many closed because they couldn't handle the load any more.) Again we are speaking about LEGAL vs. ILLEGAL, not race or country of origin.
So, PLEASE stop Oscar from talking and writing trash. Here many theme parks hire Polish students who come over for the summer to work as food concessionaires, cashiers, etc. In September, they return to Poland. They speak excellent English, smile, are personable, helpful and sincere. The only thing one can hear at our local drive-through restaurants is "Don't you espic espanich?" I wish people would stop asking that. I DO speak Spanish, and English and Italian and French. But when I am HERE in the U.S.A., I speak English in my day-to-day life!
Hmmmm, if there is to be a general "amnesty" that will be called "guest worker", please assure that Iwona Maslanka, the would-be bridesmaid from Poland is HERE! I am going to fight for EVERY SINGLE EUROPEAN, CANADIAN AND OTHERS to be given the SAME STATUS. I do NOT want to see ANY illegals here. But if they ask for a VISA, unless there is a good reason to believe she's a terrorist, give her the damn document and let her in! Half of the terrorists coming here are coming in thru Mexico anyway.
As for your writer Oscar Avila, he should have reported the European stats as they stack against the Illegal Central and South American stats. Whew!
Maybe Oscar should have written about something else that day. And why would he report on the illegal European statistics when he was writing about a young lady who was trying to come her LEGALLY for a family event. Got kinda mixed up there, Oscar.
By the way, here in California, as soon as Mexico was out of the World Cup (Soccer), it was no longer broadcast on mainline t.v. channels. I guess the cable folks here thought that only Mexico mattered. Hmmmm, I was pretty darned happy to see Italy take the prize. I have to PAY to see the Italian t.v. channel, but I've got telavisa, telemundo, etc. FORCE FED to me whether I want those 18-plus channels or not.
AY! AY! AY! Somebody quick - call La Migra! But leave Miss Maslanka with her LEGAL VISA come in the through the front door to Chicago, the FINEST CITY IN AMERICA.
I'll be back in autumn for my 6 month reality check. I can't live without that wonderful gritty, life-giving Chicago spirit and air.
Lucia Bartoli
Born on the westside at Mother Cabrini Hospital
Cubs and Bears fan, unless the White Sox are in Anaheim when I then am screaming "GO WHITE SOX"! (and lots of Angels fans are glaring at me - Yeah, oh well!)
This young Polish woman should be given a visa, a passport, a red carpet welcome and a couple of nights in a suite at the Drake. Then make reporter Oscar Avila have lunch with her so they can discuss the REAL immigration problem -- and it AIN'T illegal Europeans (who get summarily shipped back when discovered).
I am a transplanted Chicagoan living in southern California. I also lived many years in Mexico and I am an interpreter/translator by education. I would happily urge the California Governator (Arnold) and our Congresspersons to accept ALL of Illinois' illegal Europeans for an equal number of our illegals currently in California. We have a few million here. They came with NO visa, NO passport, NO job, NO skills, NO education, NO English. So at least you guys can more or less FIND your Polish, Russians, Greeks, Italians, whatever... We have no idea where our several million illegals are...unless we stand in downtown Santa Ana and yell "Migra" (Immigration) or go ask 3/4 of the patients in any of the local e.r. facilities that are still open. (Many closed because they couldn't handle the load any more.) Again we are speaking about LEGAL vs. ILLEGAL, not race or country of origin.
So, PLEASE stop Oscar from talking and writing trash. Here many theme parks hire Polish students who come over for the summer to work as food concessionaires, cashiers, etc. In September, they return to Poland. They speak excellent English, smile, are personable, helpful and sincere. The only thing one can hear at our local drive-through restaurants is "Don't you espic espanich?" I wish people would stop asking that. I DO speak Spanish, and English and Italian and French. But when I am HERE in the U.S.A., I speak English in my day-to-day life!
Hmmmm, if there is to be a general "amnesty" that will be called "guest worker", please assure that Iwona Maslanka, the would-be bridesmaid from Poland is HERE! I am going to fight for EVERY SINGLE EUROPEAN, CANADIAN AND OTHERS to be given the SAME STATUS. I do NOT want to see ANY illegals here. But if they ask for a VISA, unless there is a good reason to believe she's a terrorist, give her the damn document and let her in! Half of the terrorists coming here are coming in thru Mexico anyway.
As for your writer Oscar Avila, he should have reported the European stats as they stack against the Illegal Central and South American stats. Whew!
Maybe Oscar should have written about something else that day. And why would he report on the illegal European statistics when he was writing about a young lady who was trying to come her LEGALLY for a family event. Got kinda mixed up there, Oscar.
By the way, here in California, as soon as Mexico was out of the World Cup (Soccer), it was no longer broadcast on mainline t.v. channels. I guess the cable folks here thought that only Mexico mattered. Hmmmm, I was pretty darned happy to see Italy take the prize. I have to PAY to see the Italian t.v. channel, but I've got telavisa, telemundo, etc. FORCE FED to me whether I want those 18-plus channels or not.
AY! AY! AY! Somebody quick - call La Migra! But leave Miss Maslanka with her LEGAL VISA come in the through the front door to Chicago, the FINEST CITY IN AMERICA.
I'll be back in autumn for my 6 month reality check. I can't live without that wonderful gritty, life-giving Chicago spirit and air.
Lucia Bartoli
Born on the westside at Mother Cabrini Hospital
Cubs and Bears fan, unless the White Sox are in Anaheim when I then am screaming "GO WHITE SOX"! (and lots of Angels fans are glaring at me - Yeah, oh well!)
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