March 01, 2006
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A Happily Married Reader Says
Guzzardi Is Wrong About the Fiancée Visa
An Italian-American Reader Says Domenici’s WISH Bill is Reprehensible
From: Vincent Chiarello [e-mail
him]
Re: Joe Guzzardi’s Column:
Domenici Disgraces Italian-Americans With WISH Bill
Sen. Domenici's attempt to legalize an illegal act
smacks of the two characteristics Guzzardi mentions: he
is in bed with the
cheap labor lobby and, frankly, he's a jerk.
As a
Californian, Guzzardi might know of Stephen R. Fox's Unknown Internment, an
account of the
Mickey Mouse attempt to
relocate Italian-Americans during WWII.
A friend, who teaches history in
New York, believes that
Joe DiMaggio's fame was a factor in convincing
Franklin Delano Roosevelt that to do so was
unnecessary. And it was, for no ethnic group
volunteered for the military during WWII in a greater
proportion to their numbers than...well, you know who,
the Italians.
But what Domenici does is to dishonor those who
fought and bled—Marine Sgt.
John Basilone (what a story!) and
Capt. Dominic Gentile, amongst them—for this
country.
In all, 26
Italian-Americans have received the
Medal of Honor.
In short, for whatever reasons, economic, political
or religious—I trust no religion on this issue including
my own—Domenici is to me the most reprehensible,
because he stains what I consider the outstanding record
of those Italians immigrants, including my grandparents
(one of whom was
Enrico Caruso's barber) who came here legally.
