Posted on 01/16/2017 6:42:01 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
With just days to go until Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States of America, we want to hear from Irish readers living there about how they feel now about him entering the White House.
On the day of the election result, we were inundated with reaction, with the majority expressing shock and dismay. Have your opinions or expectations changed in the months since? What did you think of Mr Trump’s press conference this week? What is the mood like where you live? How do you think his presidency could affect the Irish community in the US?
Yesterday it emerged that the president-elect’s transition team has been considering ways to revamp the H1-B visa, a common programme for temporary Irish workers coming to the US. The future of the popular J-1 visa for students is also shaky as Mr Tump pledged to end the programme during his election campaign. The fate of undocumented people - including an estimated 50,000 Irish - is most uncertain. Are you concerned about these potential changes, or other aspects of Trump's immigration policy?
Send us your thoughts and opinions by email to abroad@irishtimes.com, including your name, where you live, when you emigrated, your occupation and age. Photographs are optional. A selection of submissions will be published on irishtimes.com next week. Thank you.
I say even the fourth generation legal ones go back :) jk!
Making up news.
the irish times is a leftist rag...
Can you even imagine having the gall to think you could influence a foreign election process by expressing concern over 50,000 Americans living anywhere illegally? I can’t. I’m surprised Irish do. It appears that it’s all about the gimme for them, too. Pity. I remember when they were a bit more of an upright, self-determined people.
Finally!! Someone is asking the hard questions about those darn Irish.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-irish-slave-trade-the-forgotten-white-slaves/31076
History forgets about the Irish slaves.
Friends that visited Ireland during GW’s terms were astonished at all of the anger from the Irish about our President.
But the last eight years not a peep from the Irish over the reign of Obama.
I am 100% Irish, son of an Irish sharecropper who emigrated to the US after WWII, dual citizen. I love Ireland. That said, if you are Irish and living illegally in the US, you have to go home to the country where you legally reside. You are a criminal here. You have your choice of Ireland and many countries in Europe due to the EU agreement. There is no war in Ireland, no genocide, no terrorism, so you are not a refugee.
I wasn't allowed to buy a beer the whole time I was there.
Everyone wanted to be near me and talk to me.
Great sense of pride by all....I'm an American AND Irish.
JFK died on my 20th birthday.
This is the inevitable evolution of the victim culture. Since everyone has seen what power there is in being a victim, everyone wants to cash in. It’s cultural dis-integration, the very opposite of unity. And it’s also a consequence of the Big Lie called “diversity.”
The Irish have historically been lefties, hence their attraction for the Dim party. For some peculiar reason, known but to themselves, the Irish embrace socialism like a drowning man grabbing for a small piece of flotsam.
I was wrong, it was/is the Germans.
His funeral is the first thing I remember. I was 3 1/2.
Irish didn’t even bother to fight Hitler, they wanted England to lose.
Progenitor came to colonies in 1754
From Dublin Ireland
I feel pretty good so far with his administration picks
All four of my grandparents were Irish immigrants to the USA. I consider myself to be American, just American, because I think Teddy Roosevelt was right about there being no such thing as a hyphenaged American. Even if I didn’the so believe, I would eschew any affil u Arion with the Irish because I am disgusted by how reflexively anti-GOP the Irish over there and the illegal Irish are here. They seem to love to be resentful victims.
The “shock and dismay” may be a fear that Trump’s policies will entice Silicone Valley Companies along with Big Pharma back from Ireland where they reside in abundance.
The Kennedys, virtually all Irishmen in New England, and the modern Irish, make me ashamed to be Irish.
Over a century ago, the Catholic hierarchy and the laity threw themselves into the arms of the party of slavery, the KKK, and Jim Crow, and they have largely continued to snuggle in those arms as that party became the party of baby-murder and sodomy.
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