Let me see if I understand this correctly.

Three probably illegal aliens stone a parade sign and hurt a bystander.

Yet, the parade float sign is called the problem. What nonsense!

Equally bad, the Albert Lea Tribune failed to provide a photograph of the parade float! Printing the sign was exactly what the reader needed to provide substance to the article.

The sign makes a true, well-deserved statement, “Illegal immigrants cost jobs, hospitals and courts.”

Very appropriate for the celebrating the nation’s birthday. Settlers came and made a country.

Later, some foreigners asked to come and were permitted to come.

Almost no one was an illegal alien.

On its birthday, a statement to return the nation to its basic values and practices is entirely appropriate.

Dell Erickson

Minneapolis