Senator Schumer set to introduce immigration bill in Senate to help Irish

Joycean say what you like. The Iraq war was a disgrace. Who gives America the right to go and wreck a soverign country with a bunch of lies. The whole world is disgusted by it. Well them adventures are coming to an end as your nations credit card is about to be maxed out. Get ready for trillions of dollars of cutbacks. The days of foreign agression are numbered. Thank god!!

BTW, not using Shannon is the easy part. Out planes do not rutinely stop at Shannon. The usual military transport flight planes go through Newfoundland, the Azores, or England. Or they fly straight through to Germany or Spain.This is a manufactured issue that gives the Irish, included their new preident Michael Higgins,a tiny issue that they can use as a way to express anti-American hatred.

Using Superfly's logic, I think we should stop refueling at Shannon and refuse all Irish immigrants and Irish citizens entry into this country and our air space.

Superfly, If the majority of your compatrios object to our landing planes at Shannon, you should express your complaints to YOUR government.That is not something that confers an obligation on our part: its an agreement between the heads of government and something that we pay for. I'm glad to hear you don't want to immigrate to our country. You are right, you wouldn't like it.

I wouldn't want to live and work in America. I'm from N.Ireland. Unlike America at least I know if I get sick the doctor will check my hearbeat and not my wallet!!

Georgedillion while I agree with some of your remarks the "we owe them nothing" comment is a little wrong. It was us who allowed your corrupt government to land thousands and thousands of your soldiers to and from your illegal Iraq adventure at our Shannon Airport for refueling. Personally I disagree with that too.

hollabackgurl: Yet another inane post from you. Why do you bother at this stage?

joycean: "we should follow the EU example and only allow jobs for non-US citizens if there are no US citizens who would qualify". You're completely wrong, that's not "the EU example". Or at least it's not the Irish example. Irish capitalists import tens of thousands of workers every year to do jobs that Irish people or other EU citizens could do. That's why I say NO to any concessions for Irish immigration to the US. Let them stay at home and fix their broken country. We owe them nothing.

10,000 jobs aren't a huge number, but when we have 8.1% unemployment, maybe we should follow the EU example and only allow jobs for non-US citizens if there are no US citizens who would qualify. This seems an odd idea:non-green card positions, indefinitely renewable.I don't think what large multi-nationals do require gratitude on the part of the US. Those corporations do what is best for them. since the US does not tax profits they make overseas, the US gets nothing from them.

For US Corporations, Ireland's tax rate and skilled workforce have made investing there one of the most profitable enterprises they have ever pursued. Ireland should expect a similar strong handshake from the US. Ireland has contributed billions in income to US corporations and shareholders. Let's expect a little gratitude.

If Chuckie was in office when my Great Grandfather immigrated, I would be speaking with a brogue.

Now George, If I remember right, your ancestors were in Ireland when Sherman and his boys decided to take a trip to the beach. Otherwise,I tend to agree with you.

tell Shumer you don't want to take any more of american jobs from us, you want to be americans. Tell em I said so.

That idea by Bailey2000 just might be worth another look.

No American who loves Ireland should support this bill. There's plenty of work in Ireland--the Irish Central Statistics Office reports over a thousand foreigners entering the country every week, the great majority of them for work purposes. So we shouldn't cooperate with the old Irish trick of running away from their country whenever things get a little tough. I'll certainly be lobbying my congressman to vote against any measure such as this. Down here in Dixie we've had quite enough illegal immigrants ever since Sherman moved in.