Family has no choice but to leave Ireland

Dublinjas: "Who destroyed the Worlds Economies ? I'll give you a clue, It was not the Irish."-----The Irish just destroyed their own economy. All illegal aliens should be kicked back to whence they came. Just because Ireland has an Open Door immigration policy doesn't mean we should--we've got nothing to learn from Ireland, except how NOT to run things.

ancavker: You're quite right. I never came across such a - conceited lazy foul-mouthed lot as the irish who hit our shores in the late 1980s. I was the same age as most of them, early 20s, but I couldn't stand them. Most them spent their free time hanging around bars in Queens and the West bronx, they had no interest in learning about America or seeing it. They thought they knew it all from TV and movies.

On another note, my parents immigrated here illegally in the eighties and thank god they did. NI am happy to be able to pursue a career that would have been mediocre at best in Ireland. As for not paying our share at the time, the US government is getting it's Just Deserts now and will do eventually for all of the immigrants who become legal in time. I am currently in the worst tax bracket paying a huge portion of my earning in taxes without being eligible for any stimulus or other immigrant "minority" breaks because I am "white" after all. Still seething over the ignorant comment below...

Krisdaly dont kid yourself! Your grandparents were allowed to enter legally because the government needed them at the time. How dare you rant in ALL CAPS and call this land "OUR LAND". This is no more your land then the land of this hard working family. SHAME ON YOU!!! IN ALL CAPS TOO!!!

Shame on you for breaking the immigration law of the USA. My grandparents immigrated LEGALLY through ELLIS ISLAND. YOU ARE CRIMINALS AND HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THE USA. SHAME,SHAME,SHAME ON YOU. THERE WILL BE NO REWARDS FOR BREAKING THE LAWS OF OUR LAND!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL, what am I giving away? I live in AZ. have for over 40 years and folks are raising hell because of the drugs and crime that comes up from the south- I have zero issues with those that come here to work but what else crosses the border is what drives the push for a secure border which will impact those who desire nothing more then to make an honest living working here. How can it not?

Ajreaper gives himself away subtly. "The criminal element coming north taints everyone" as opposed to the "Irish gentleman" who works hard, blah blah blah. Look you're talking about Mexicans and you're wrong. They come here to work same as us. They are our natural allies and there'll be no immigration reform while Irish people think we are a special case. And by the way, what's with the "Ya" that the author quotes her interviewees as saying? "Ya"?

The immigration rules are ridiculous, and I say that as someone who has a green card. Some estimates say that there are 12 million illegals. If they can't keep them out, and clearly they can't, then they should loosen the rules to regularise the situation. They won't, though. Common sense seems to have no place atall in American politics.

Unless I missed something the Irish here without documentation are not in anyway linked to the drug trade or human trafficking. Unfortunately the criminal element coming north taints everyone- there are plenty, in fact the majority would be my guess, who come here and work hard to support their families no different then this Irish gentleman but when all the bad comes along with them it raises other issues. Those who wish to work should be able to enter this country and do so- regardless of skin color.

Well educated souls who leave to enrich other lands. A beat that goes on giving. Thanks to the poodle folks with their severed poodle piece of country. The Clintons are pushing for that British poodle head piece of old erin. Ms. Clinton helping the crown like hubby did by bringing Gerry Adams in from the cold. Knightings are due them. Living in or coming from a poodle looking island with its severed head in the control of long occupier neighbour makes for severe dysfunctional behaviour. A people whose usurped harp flys on the Sasanach standards - proclaiming ireland as being in union with them. Next year, 2011, their queen is to arrive to cement their claim. Then the wild exhuberance of that tiger era which is but a pu$$ssy cat version whose nine lives are up. Mysterious oligarch Abramovith, Chelsea's owner is going to sue the irish Gov for billions - another hit on their taxpaying unfortunates. Sad to say but it gets worse with cutbacks that will last for years upon years. Religion that gave them a sense that there was a tomorrow leaves them feeling like lemmings - making for diminished sexual interest.

Well educated souls who leave to enrich other lands. A beat that goes on giving. Thank to the poodle folks with their severed poodle piece of country. The Clintons are pushing for that British poodle head piece of old erin. Ms. Clinton helping the crown like hubby did by bringing Gerry Adams in from the cold. Knightings are due them. Living in or coming from a poodle looking island with its severed head in the control of long occupier neighbour makes for severe dysfunctional behaviour. A people whose usurped harp flys on the Sasanach standards - proclaiming ireland as being in union with them. Next year, 2011, their queen is to arrive to cement their claim. Then the wild exhuberance of that tiger era which is but a pu$$ssy cat version whose nine lives are up. Mysterious oligarch Abramovith, Chelsea's owner is going to sue the irish Gov for billions - another hit on their taxpaying unfortunates. Sad to say but it gets worse with cutbacks that will last for years upon years. Religion that gave them a sense that there was a tomorrow leaves them feeling like lemmings - making for diminished sexual interest.

I wonder if the new, new Irish coming, will eb a little noicer to the Irish Americans than the last crowd.

Too many people in Ireland desert the land they claim to love when the going gets tough. This family say the USA is a great country but the first thing they do is disrespect the place by breaking it's laws and staying illegally. What makes these people any different than undocumented Mexicans? How does one get a job & put kids into school without documents/social security No.s? Will they contribute to the country by paying their taxes?

Who destroyed the Worlds Economies ? I'll give you a clue, It was not the Irish.

I'm glad they're here. They wouldn't have to be undocumented if the immigration laws were fairer to Irish Immigrants. Our country isn't being overrun by illegal Irish.