03/01/2006
A Happily Married Reader Says Guzzardi Is Wrong About the Fiancée Visa
From: Vincent Chiarello
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.
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