Undocumented Irish attract key support from Rep. Delahunt

In Massachusetts do the illegal aliens get to vote in our elections?

garyrose, My ancestor Patrick Sr. arrived on these shores some 200 years ago from the hill country of what is now "Northern Ireland". I think he would be displeased to read your comments on Mexican immigrants, probably because the US census people have indicated that there are probably in excess of 12 million undocumented persons in the US, including an estimated 8 million from Mexico(not 12 to 20 million). There is big question of this too, due to labeling of anyone speaking Spanish as "Mexican", even this descendent of Ireland and some Native American (Indians). Happy St. Patrick's Day! When is the feast day of St. Brendan the Navigator?

People, people! Let's keep it civil!

Hollowayrd: The Mongolians came down the asiatic straits looking for food and land, they found America, there were caucasians there as proven by bones found that were older than the Indians,probably vikings. Indians are monglolians, thats all they are. Most countries belonged to some one else first or were conquered , but if you build up a country to Times square, Brooklyn bridge status and paid into the system for any length of time then it is your country. Most Americans , even a newer immigrant feels that America is their home, otherwise why work and pay taxes? You can't justify making America a dumping ground for every Immigrant the UN decides needs an education and medical help and to them we have too much anyway, you can't do that with the excuse that we are all immigrants anyway and it isn't our country, then we shoudln't have to pay taxes should we. We would love to have more Irish come to America,but if that were OK for them it would have to be OK for everyone else. Bush made deals with Mexico and now we are stuck with them. They do not want people with loyalty to America coming in and becoming citizens, they want people who are just here to make money and send it home to Mexico , as for the Africans, who knows why they send them to us, the UN are racists and feel we should all integrate. We are no longer a majority in America, if you put the Hispanics and the blacks and Africans together they out number us, they don't want any more whites in America, unfortunately.

I FEEL SORRY THE IRISH DOES NOT HAVE POLITICAL PULL? MEXICO AND HAITI HAS WHY MEXICO HAS SHOVED INTO U.S.A. 12 to 20 MILLION ILLEGALS INTO AMERICA?? AND OUR ACTING I SAY ACTING PRESIDENT IS THINKING ABOUT FORCEING THEM ONTO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND AMERICA??WHY I WOULD RATHER HAVE 100000 IRISHMEN THEN ANY OF MEXICOS UNGRATEFUL MASSES ANYTIME. JUST AN AMERICAN TAXPAYER>>>THANK YOU IRISH>>>>

Hollowayroad, I can't go to stay in Europe. I don't have a visa. I also cannot return to Asia, where I once lived. So if I want to return to those places, I can try for a visa, but if I do not get one, I will not disrespect those countries by illegally entering.

Hollowayroad, likewise you are an illegal immigrant homo-sapien who stole Europe from the Neanderthals! Now go back to Africa where your species originated!

Meggie01,its not your country-it was stolen from the Indians.You are an illegal immigrant yourself-but don`t come back to Europe.

I would agree with this totally excep tyou make it so hard for people ot come to your country to live or even vacation. I never heard of having to show a bank draft to vacation in a county and if, like that pofessor, you didn't want them ot come in you just say they don't have enough money regardless of credit cards and I suspect travelers checks as well. Undocumented means illegal, thats what it is. I personally don't care if they are given legal status or not but it shoudln't be easier for them to get into this country illegally than it is to get into theirs just for a vacation. I wish they would make it easier for the Irish to come into this country legally, then they wouldn't have to break the law, its always been hard for them to get in for some reason.

Beware Delahunt and the Demoncrats he'll admit 10 diseased illiterate third world-er for every Irishman and all the while destroy the very same free market capitalism that gave jobs to the Irish immigrants in the first place.

If they can't get visas, they should stay out of our country.

There should be no legalization of those who enter our country by breaking our laws. That said, I would like to see a large expansion in visas for Irish immigrants. But no one who comes here illegally should get to go to the head of the line.

I would like to ask all irish people to please support the cause for immigration reform and to please join the community Reform Immigration for America on facebook. We will need all the support we can get to pass this bill in 2010.

PostScript - Delahunt's name indicates his family arrived from Ireland a very long time ago and the name has been misspelt through the years ever since. It should be Delahunty (French/Irish De la Hauntaigh). Or maybe it's the American way of economising on typing and on printing ink.

I'm Irish-born and bred and live in Ireland. Personally, I would have little sympathy for the undocumented – they cheated on their visas and stayed illegally in a country hosting their ‘visit’. The problem is that many undocumented have made their homes, careers, families and even, in some cases, fortunes in the USA over the years and there’s now so many of these people since the ‘60s, ‘70’s and 80’s that the human aspect has to be looked at. We in Ireland certainly don’t expect Americans of today to ‘give in’ as they say... it’s a problem that needs to be sorted - politically, hereditarily and humanely, not just for the Irish undocumented but for other nations’ undocumented people in the USA, e.g Mexicans, Latvians, Poles - esp given the implications of marriage and lack of freedom to travel.