Irish American community leaders push for new immigration bill

If you do not understand what the flood of millions of illegal invaders from Mexico, Guatemala, and other countries south of our border is doing to our economy, do some research. As for the Irish, you are being used. It is much like a family begging for clemency for group theft, when all your grandmother did was steal a loaf of bread to eat, and the others in the group are jewel thieves.

It's the sub-prime meltdown, the banks predatory lending practices, the dodgy home equity loans. the Bush administration's policies moving all the wealth of this country into the hands of the top 1%, the mortgage crisis that led to plunging property prices, a slowdown in the US economy, and billions in reckless losses by banks, who then denied credit to industry. None of that was the fault of the undocumented among us - blaming them for our problems is a disgraceful cop out and a refusal to look reality square in the face.

'Gwenm10100' I have to agree with you 100% and you put it most Succinctly.

blarneyrus http://www.embassyofireland.org/home/index.aspx?id=267 The above link will explain the requirements for Irish citizenship for those not born on the island. At least one grandparent or parent born on the island, including the now occupied 6 counties, is required to be considered for citizenship. I do believe in certain circumstances that a great-grandparent born on the island will be sufficient to apply. The total process can usually be completed within a year. Good luck to you.

someone mentioned that if your great grandparent is an Irish citizen then you can get citizenship...is this true, cause from my findings that has been stopped a few years ago, like 6 or so years ago....but if i am mistaken and someone knows the answer please let me know, my great grandparents were born and raised there...and i want to move to ireland more than anything! thanks so much! OH AND VINCENTRUANE....what are you talking about???do you mean legal or ILlegal aliens should get a grant...either way, if they have been in america legal or illegally and been working for many years, sounds like they are already settled to me so why should they (or you) get a grant...VS all the other hardworking citizens? haha thats funny stuff there!....

rofl NINA!

It would be incredibly insensitive of Obama and Charles Schumer to peddle "comprehensive immigration reform" a/k/a mass amnesty for illegal aliens -- when the U.S. has an effective unemployment rate of 17%. Polling shows about 80% of Americans oppose "comprehensive reform" amnesty (including many if not most Irish Americans), and they will not accept any form of amnesty.

All egal aliens with children should get a 20,000 dollar grant to help them get settled in America. Calling hard working people illegal is unamerican. These people have much to offer America and keeping them in a limbo is not helping America. How many great minds are being held back here? America is loosing far more than it is gaining by failing to legalize all these people immediately. America's vast size could easily hold over a billion people so give these people the same chance you had.

I never thought the Irish would be so meddlesome and idiotic. Come in legal like other respectable foreigners do.

cinhahn :Ireland lets Americans with as little Irishness as one Great grandparent have residency and an Irish passport-no other country in Europe is as generous.The British won`t give you a passport unless you or your parent was born there.

It is embarrising to think that Irish citizens are here and acting the same way as the lawless and uneducated hordes from the third world. What would your priest and grandparents say?

Will Irish Americans ever be welcomed in Ireland similar to the way Jewish Americans are courted by Israel to come and live and enjoy the land of their kin?

Fast Eddy, not when you factor in the cost of living and the VAT (Sales tax) of 21% or higher, I'm not positive on the current rate.

Madeline, you have one Marxist in government and he is from Vermont. Just for the sake of it, even though I'm worried of the answer I might get, what other Marxists are their in your government?

cinhahn: " ... As usual, the Irish want to take advantage of what America offers, but the Irish government offers nothing in return. ..." If us gringos have a bit of cash, we can buy into businesses in Ireland, then come over as employees with a job waiting = work visa with path to Irish citizenship. A bit like joining a closed union shop ... No?