Joe Guzzardi

Birthright citizenship and Major League Baseball
Shohei Ohtani and his wife, Mamiko, recently welcomed their second child —another “anchor baby”—bringing their family size above the U.S. replacement-level fertility rate of 1.6 children per woman. The Los Angeles Dodgers signed Ohtani to a ..
Remembering baseball’s first All-Star Game
No single review can do justice to Randall Sullivan’s new book, "The First All-Star Game, Babe Ruth, FDR, and America at the Crossroads." While the book’s central focus is the first-ever 1933 All-Star Game — or the “Game of the Century,” a..
Yogi Berra: D-Day hero
Even casual baseball fans know Yogi Berra, born Lorenzo Pietro Berra, is one of diamond history’s greatest players. A catcher, the game’s toughest position, the New York Yankees legend was an 18-times All Star, 13-times World Series champion, an..
MLB is getting Jackie Robinson Day all wrong
Every April 15 since 2004, Major League Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson Day, in honor of the first Black player to appear in a big-league game In a stupefying display of hypocrisy, baseball officials play the day up shamelessly, even as they hav..
Opening Day 1976 and the return to Yankee Stadium
On Opening Day, the luckiest baseball fans have a ticket to Yankee Stadium. The 27-time World Series champs have baseball’s most impressive history – Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto, Reggie Jackson, D..
Daryl Hannah and immigration enforcement advocates agree on something
[carton id="305535"] Last week, the New York Times published Daryl Hannah’s op-ed “How Can ‘Love Story’ Get Away with This?” Hannah was referring to the FX made-for-television series that focused on the whirlwind love affair and marriage be..
The question pollsters never ask about Trump
On conservative media outlets like Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove is omnipresent. George W. Bush’s former senior advisor and deputy chief of staff can hardly be called conservative, at least when it comes to President Donald Trump..
Shutting down birth hotels another line of defense against China
Thanks to questionable programs like birthright citizenship, and chain migration, as many as 1.5 million Chinese may be eligible to vote by 2030. The startling number, revealed in Peter Schweizer’s new best selling book, “The Invisible Coup: How..
Ahead of the Super Bowl, thinking of Broadway Joe
I’ve been around long enough to have seen the Super Bowl games since the first one kicked off in 1967. “Seen” is too strong a word. Early on, I watched every play, glued to the television. But for the last several years, the game has been on b..
Trump official fighting the good fight against voter fraud
One of the most determined and dedicated fraud fighters in the U.S. is the under-appreciated, unsung Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, a constitutional law expert and free speech advocate. Dhillon succeeds the controversia..
A bill to cure Trump Derangement Syndrome
Within my immediate family, the Trump Derangement Syndrome team outnumbers the MAGAs by an 8-1 ratio. Some on the Trump Derangement Syndrome squad resemble retiring Rep. Nancy Pelosi in their passionate anti-Trump rhetoric. After calling President T..
Trump’s advocacy for foreign workers infuriates his base
As then-presidential candidate Ronald Reagan said with a smile to incumbent Jimmy Carter in their 1980 debate, "There you go again." The simple sentence that helped Reagan win 44 states and 499 electoral votes came to mind when President Donald Trum..

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About Joe Guzzardi
Joe Guzzardi writes for the Washington, D.C.-based Progressives for Immigration Reform. A newspaper columnist for 30 years, Joe writes about immigration and related social issues.
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