Should I stay or should I go?

When you talk about the "undocumented" Irish in the USA, ask yourself this. If they are really "undocumented", and they are working, how are they being paid? To be able to work in this country you must have a Social Security Number. How did they get one if they are "umdocumented"? If they do not have one, them you and I are paying for them to be in this country because they do not pay any taxes. The problem is not with the 50,000 Irish, it's with the millions coming across the Mexican border. Don't think it's that bad? Try driving anywhere in Southern Arizona or New Mexico. One of two things will happen. One is you WILL be stopped by searched by the Border Patrol and, two, you WILL almost run over a bunch of illegals as they run north. You might also run the risk of being ambushed by anyone of hundreds of drug runners. The last one happened to me on my last trip to Arizona last August. If it had not been for me carrying a M16 and Border Patrol agent following behind me, my wife and I would be dead right now. If you think Obama will help the "undocumented" Irish, you are wrong. The only thing he cares about is taking America down. The only way to stop illegals coming across the border is to put the military there with orders to shoot. Look at Mexico, they can't stop their own people from being killed by the thousands everyday, how are they going to stop anyone from crossing the border?

Now, the deal: we do need an immigration policy that provides a way for people to come here, establish themselves and earn their citizenship...BUT it can't simply be based on who can sneak in from where. It should have a documented guest worker program that also includes a way for those people to have priority towards permanent residency and citizenship IF they show they are worthy of it. Simply being alive is not a criteria for becoming a legal citizen.

There will be immigration reform soon, I think. It's something President Obama wants to happen. It would be a blessing to see all the criminals deported. By that I don't mean all illegals. Our immigration policies need to have some sanity attached to them.

All of our ancestors, and many of us, went through this...and my son living in Dublin feels it being so far from his family in California. Suck it up folks, it is about growing up and making your way in life. If you don't like it, change it. Go home, but sniveling won't make you successful in your new land...and if you don't like the USA, go somewhere else...but grow up.

Don't sweat it,there comes a time all too too soon when everyone you knew at home loved and otherwise is either dead or emigrated, and sadly no reason to go there anyway.

50.000 undocumented Irish workers certainly contribute a great deal to our society, as do the millions of other workers from Mexico and elsewhere. It seems to me that its urgent that we create an immigration policy that allows most, if not all, of the workers to stay here and live normal and well-adjusted lives without fear of deportation, and with some hope for a future.

As illegals go you could do far worse than having 50,000 Irish in your continent.Sure arn't they dacent people like.Besides in comparison to the number of illegals from other countries,50,000 illegal Irish is a mere trifle and could fit in the backyard of the more monied over there on that Continent.

I hate to say it but I have to agree with GeorgeDillon - illegal is illegal regardless the circumstances that caused it. How can we approve of illegals from Ireland and condemn illegals from Mexico,China,Iraq,Iran,Afghanistan or any other country? I understand wanting to have a better life - but follow the legal procedures to make it happen and stop whining about how horrible it is to live in constant fear of discovery and missing out on events "at home." If you consider Ireland home then you should be there, not here crying about it.

@GeorgeDillon Don't be an frigging idiot.. You have no idea about Ireland so stop commenting on what you don't know.

I'm afraid it's impossible to feel sympathy with these lawbreakers. Especially with the ones who came here when the Irish economy was booming, such as Doherty. I don't envy them though, it's scary to think that a knock could come on the door some day and a couple of ICE agents could drag you away to jail & deportation. These Irish have really messed up, they abandoned their own country when it was doing well, and now can't go home when it's doing badly. And all the time their homeland is filling up with foreigners. My advice to these Irish? Go home, that's where you can't be kicked out of. Build up your country. Get a job--if Poles, Romanians and Pakistanis can find work in Ireland surely an Irish person can too.