I barely remember my Great-Grandfather Sigmund and my Great Uncle Lars, but what I do remember is how proud they were to have learned English and passed the citizenship test!!! Their English wasn't good, but the only time they spoke Norwegian was to say something they didn't want the kids to understand!! I also remember how proud my Grandfater Julius was to have been born in this country of Naturalized Citizen parents!!!!

If the system worked way back then when a pair of Norwegian ship builders emigrated to rural Larchwood, Ia. and took up building barns instead of boats, then went on to raise 10 kids each and farm a combined total of 400 acres that they homesteaded, why can't that same system work now???

I've got absolutely nothing againist legal immigrants who work hard and wait patiently to meet the requirements of being a US Citizen, but nobody will ever convince me I should feel any sympathy or compassion to those who circumvent the system and sneak in!!!!

I again am probably looking at things on a simplistic basis and don't understand the entire problem..but to me it's as simple as who do you respect more, the man who scrimped and saved to build his Hot Rod or the man who stole his???? The law is the law, either work within it's confines or fight to change it but do it LEGALLY!!!!