The topic of immigration, both legal and illegal, is the third rail in political discussions right now. An interesting twist to this is President Trump’s concept of “merit-based” immigration. In theory letting only the best and the brightest into America.

If this test had been applied to the great masses that came over in my grandfather’s generation, I wonder how many would have passed it? I can assure you that Louis D’Imperio, born May 26, 1888, in Montagano, province of Campobasso, Italy, would have surely failed.