Ironside: USA lost they chance to improve their image in the eyes of Polish patriots.
Well, again, the USA are all immigrants. It is an immigrant nation. The only natives are sitting on reservations. Congress makes the rules, not the President.
There are around 10 million Americans of Polish descent living in the USA. Chicago bills itself as the largest Polish city outside the Polish capital of Warsaw, and there are approximately 185,000 Polish speakers in the Chicago metropolitan area. Chicago's Polish presence is felt in the large number of Polish-American organizations located here beginning with the Polish Museum of America, the Polish American Association, the Polish National Alliance and the Polish Highlander's Alliance of North America. Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, Brooklyn, Milwaukee, Baltimore and New Britain, Connecticut also have very large Polish populations. Older Polish Americans are rapidly migrating to the Southeast (Florida), Southwest (Arizona) and the West Coast (California), but also destinations for Polish immigrants from Poland in the 1990s. The only city to have official Dyngus Day celebrations inspired by the popular Polish Custom of ¦migus Dyngus is Buffalo. The major U.S. Polonia organization is the Polish American Congress.
Estimates for the total number of people living in the UK and born in Poland, or of Polish descent vary significantly. The figure has been quoted as 600,000 and well over a million but more recently it is reported that the numbers are decreasing. Other than London, Poles have settled in Manchester, Bolton, Bury and Chorley in Lancashire, and there are also large concentrations in Bradford, Leeds, Coventry and Nottingham, as well as South Yorkshire, South Wales, Rugby, Banbury, Slough and Swindon.
The economic crisis in the UK and the growing economy in Poland reduced the economic incentive for Poles to migrate to the UK. By the last quarter of 2008, approximately half of those that had come to the UK to work had returned home.
Yeah, its cut and paste.
But before the big EU thing, there were millions of Poles with dual citizenship living in the USA. It used to **** me off that Poles would come to the USA, get citizenship pretty easily for such a long time, and when it came time for an education, they just went back and sucked off the Polish education system for free. But an American cannoit do anything in Poland without jumping hoop after hoop and paying fee after fee and providing endless documents, unless Mom and Dad are Poles in Chicago. Then you can just come back and say, "Im a Pole"
The USA simply cannot take all 40 million. At some point we have to cut them off, or we have a situation worse than what we have experienced with Mexico. We do not have the economy nor the welfare system availabe to support more immigrants. Still, we allow them to come every day, and many stay illegally. They work in resturants and clean offices and so on, and never return home. If they have a baby, they are anchored. No country can support such a population explosion indefinitely, and our finances are already strained.
There are about 850,000 Polish Canadians
Stay, visit, do what you can to stay legally, but don´t expect not to penalized if you overstay. Dont expect your countrymen to not be penalized if you decide to abuse the privilege. The EU is no better for American citizens. We overstay and we get booted for 5 years and we get fined on top of that.
So many people in the USA with Polish surnames. And they are our politicians who make the rules. And we have to have rules. Poland doesnt have to have so many rules concerning immigration. As the Poles leave, the foreigners replace them and bring money into the economy.
I was in a park exercising one afternoon in Krakow, near Slowackiego. There was an old woman sitting on a bench there. She said she was 94 years old.
She asked me, "Why are you here?"
I replied that I like it and want to stay.
She stared at me oddly, and replied, "You cannot have anything in Poland. You cannot be anything. All my children and grandchildren went to Chicago and left me here alone. They send a little money, but never visit."
A shame, I said. What do they do there? "Oh, they are doctors and businessmen. Some don´t do much of anything."
Well, I says, Poland is improving. Maybe they will come back when it is better.
She laughed rather loudly, and replied, "Young man, they will never come back here. Poland is improving for the rich but never for the poor. Poland has suffered a lot through the years, but nobody abuses Poles better than other Poles."
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