Has anyone read about the problem with the Polish swimmers at Iowa? Sounds very serious. I have very strong feelings about programs brining in and giving scholarships to foreign swimmers. Oddly I have two comments
1) The guy (I've can't spell his name so I keep forgetting what it is) with the NCAA who is suppose to be working on making sure that foreigners who come to the US to swim are legal went to the same college that I went to. KNOX COLLEGE. He was recently our AD.
2) I feel very strongly that the number of scholarships given to foreigners should be very limited. However, I don't really mind illegals coming to the US to work. My grandpa Johnson was an illegal. He came to the US when he was 2 yrs old and died here at 64 yrs old. His was born in Sweden. HIs mother had a baby on the way here. When they got to New York, they weren't allowed to leave the boat. The boat went to Canada and they were dumped by the captain. They enterred the US through Canada and he was never naturalized. It might have helped that his oldest son form his first wife was a Lutheran minister in the area where they lived(?).
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Craig,
Your grandpa probably wasn't illegal. In the early 1900s, there were no limits to immigrants from northern European countries . . . everyone who hit Ellis Island was admitted, save for health reasons. Of those, many went to Canada and then to the U.S. Moreover, even if admitted without authorization, the statute of limitations was (I think) five years.
It was the McCarran Walter Act in 1952 that first established basic laws of U.S. citzenship and immigration. Prior to that, the laws limiting immigration were pretty racist, focusing on asians and, after WWI, eastern and southern europeans.
1965 saw the inception of limitations on Mexican and latino immigrants.
Craig,
Your grandpa probably wasn't illegal. In the early 1900s, there were no limits to immigrants from northern European countries . . . everyone who hit Ellis Island was admitted, save for health reasons. Of those, many went to Canada and then to the U.S. Moreover, even if admitted without authorization, the statute of limitations was (I think) five years.
It was the McCarran Walter Act in 1952 that first established basic laws of U.S. citzenship and immigration. Prior to that, the laws limiting immigration were pretty racist, focusing on asians and, after WWI, eastern and southern europeans.
1965 saw the inception of limitations on Mexican and latino immigrants.
