How ridiculous is this?

9 July, 2008

Placido Polanco, Detroit Tigers second baseman finally gains US citizenship after a 3 year security check.

It closed a three-year wait for the Dominican-born Polanco. He passed the citizenship test in 2005, but needed a security check to clear.

So he waited.

And waited.

What's wrong with this country when someone who has lived here for 16 years, is a highly skilled. employed, polite, intelligent person who is married to a citizen and has kids has to wait 3 years for a security check to be completed?