Posted on 02/09/2005 6:32:13 PM PST by raybbr
U.S. Rep. Nancy Johnson, R-5th District, reintroduced bipartisan legislation Tuesday that would reduce travel requirements made on Polish visitors to the United States. Johnson’s legislation, first introduced in 2004, would allow Polish citizens with valid passports to travel to the United States. It would rescind the requirement that Polish visitors also obtain a travel visa.
Advertisement "As a matter of fairness, Polish citizens should be able to travel to the United States under the same rules as citizens of most other European countries," Johnson said. "Generations of Polish-Americans have helped build this country. Their friends and family should be able to visit the United States with just a passport like French and German citizens can."
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Let's see if Bush gets behind this.
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I can understand why Poles would want this - I seem to recall hearing that the second-largest Polish city is Chicago, Illinois.
Only Canadians and Brits have been able enter the US without Visa since October 2004.
I think the law changed!
i think this is a good idea, poles are pro-american
Thanks for the ping.
Myself, Im getting quite tired of only hearing about Mexican immigration issues...lets start talking about all the OTHER people who want to come to this country...legally, and jump through hoops and pay good money to do so.
The Polish people certainly fit every desirable criteria Bush has talked about...lets see how this shakes out.
I agree. Let's press on. Nancy Johnson is my congresswommen and I will let her know this is the right thing to do. Poland is one of our strongest allies.
Thank you
There's a considerable community in Dallas, too.
This is long overdue. I'm still spitting mad over the perfidy of FDR and "Winnie" regarding Poland. Some in the Jewish communities, however, exulted in somewhat the same way we saw the Islamics do on 9/11 and they haven't moved out of the Democratic column since.
As long as they bring the beer, Pierogi, and their ability to pronounce my last name correctly, my Polish cousins are always welcome. :-)
Up Milwaukee in NW Chicago, up through the inner suburb of Niles, you will see nothing but signs in Polish. Same for Manhattan Avenue in Brooklyn, NY, but the yuppies are ruining the place.
Everyone I know who came here legally paid big money and waited a few years to become citizens.
What a nice way to reward countries that fought with us in Iraq as opposed to against us.
I have friends from Colombia and Panama who have paid tens of thousands of dollars to lawyers to stay in this country, while "los Mojados" are practically waved in thanks to the restaurant, hospitality, and agricultural business.
And some are Freepers who wrote the post you are reading at this very second.
I escaped from Greater Chicagoland - I know whereof you speak. Now I'm getting a hankering for perogis....
My sister lives "upcountry" from you in Simpsonville, next to Greenville. I'd shoot myself if I had to live there. As it stands, I find Seattle boring.
Try rural New Mexico - it was the most un-boring place I ever lived.
P.S. I'd rather have a bungalow in South Carolina than a Lake Shore condo in Chicago.
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