I have to agree with the freedom-of-speech thing, but there is a place and a time for this. An entry like this should not have been entered in a parade that is supposed to be a parade of celebration. We were supposed to be celebrating Independence Day, the day that we gained our independence from England, all of us, Germans, Norwegians, Swedes, English, Czechs, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Mexicans, all of us.

The point is this is supposed to be celebrating, not name-calling or race implications. We do have a problem with immigration, but that was not the time to implement this problem. Think about it if everyone that has a complaint about how society is run would promote it at functions like this. We would all have to wear riot equipment to the parades!

Scott Schreiber

Albert Lea