[Travis McGee]

Blowhard Bill.

[oh8eleven]

That's because in addition to millions of Hispanic aliens, a significant number of Irish would benefit from immigration clarity.
Sooooo, because there are (maybe) thousands of Irish illegals here, we should accept millions and millions of Hispanics?
Immigration clarity my arse. We don't need immigration "reform" - we need to enforce the current law.

[AndrewB]

“Their bodies were often thrown overboard into the sea.”

I hear that hungry sharks still patrol those same sea lanes to this very day.

[Gay State Conservative]

I’m of Irish blood and my attitude toward *them* is the same...apply for residency in the legally established fashion.If you’re approved...outstanding.If you’re not...sorry about that.If you’ve come to this country in violation of any of our laws I say...GET THE HELL OUT!!!!

[VRW Conspirator]

I told the good people in western Ireland who approached me that I hope a fair but tough immigration bill passes this year -- one that will put an end to the porous southern border and make undocumented aliens earn their citizenship over an extended period of time.

Earn? And who will decide what is "fairly" earned and what is an "extended period of time"? Chuck Schumer?

[Flag_This]

"Their bodies were often thrown overboard into the sea."

Were there other practical options available?

[La Lydia]

New euphemism for amnesty: "immigration clarity." This is even more removed from reality than "legalization."

"Yes, your Honor, I broke into the house and stole the silver, but I think I am entitled to some clarity."

[Gaffer]

Immigration “clarity” is not ‘legalization’, it is not ‘normalization’, nor is it ‘capitulation’.

Frankly, Mr. O’Reilly, I don’t give a damn about immigration from 160 years ago, 100 years ago, etc. Indeed, most Americans against amnesty will stipulate those times were times when the whole engine of immigration was much, much different.

To cloud the issue and bring up Ireland - wherever - at this point is disingenuous and distracting. The fact is there are many, many, more illegals here than the government will admit. They take much, much more than they give, and their intrinsic cost on social, medical and educational resources is near inestimable.

O’Reilly, go grab a Mexican illegal outside Home Depot and make him prove to you he’s actually paid anything other than sales taxes and rent - maybe a license and registration fee for the hoopty he uses, if that. Ask him how many anchor ninos he has and are in school, soaking up over $10K year in resources to educate and feed them in schools.

For those illegals that have been assisted in getting a real job, they’ve used a fake SSN (SSA knows about it but takes their 7.65% regularly), and they’ve filled out W-4 forms with so many exemptions the take from their check in likely in the penny range. File a tax return? Hardly, unless they’re feeling froggy and gonna go for that big EITC check in the sky.

If these leeches get amnestied and ‘normalized’ as traitor Rubio puts it, the next line they get in after the ‘normalization’ line will be the ‘entitlements’ line. Count on it.

[Robe]

My parents were LEGAL IMMIGRANTS, they presented themselves
to a US Consulate in their home country (Ireland), obtained a entry visa,presented proof of financial viability (or a letter of sponsorship from a US citizen, or a job commitment in other cases), passed a physical examination,
was subjected to a literacy test and paid their own passage to the US.
Where they were once again examined, inspected, documented and finally allowed to follow their own way to find the American dream.
Immigrants to this country are to follow the LAW !
That’s what we expect and it’s what we demand !!

[Mr. Jeeves]

The most powerful nation on earth should be able to pass a fair, effective immigration law that combines compassion with responsibility and does not injure hardworking Americans who are taxed up to here.

Yes, but the proposed law clearly does injure hardworking Americans who are taxed up to here - so Bill and Republicans are being either foolish or disingenuous when they support it.

[PistolPaknMama]

Well, we should just resettle them all in Ireland. Let them absorb the poverty, medical expenses, and crime.

[Gluteus Maximus]

The British controlled the country and, incredibly, exported grain to London even as Irish children were dying in the streets.The British controlled the country and, incredibly, exported grain to London even as Irish children were dying in the streets.

God is just. England's genocide of the Irish is one of the big reasons that God is letting England die. He's turned His face from England and without His blessing they are nothing. He's turned England over to those who hate her. Socialists. Muslims. It seems that the prayers of my ancestors were not in vain. They cry for justice of those multitudes of Irish murdered 160 years ago did not go unheard. England is dying. And not a moment too soon for this Irishman.

[Kickass Conservative]

Immigrants are invited, Invaders are not.

Invaders should not reap a reward for their Criminal Acts.

[Darren McCarty]

The United States today is a far different place from what it was in the mid-19th century, when our vast land needed folks to settle and expand into the west. Then, there was no such thing as an "illegal alien." If you physically made it here, you were an American. Simply showing up entitled you to pursue the dream of prosperity.

They could also be drafted in those days.

[Regulator]

Ooooohhh, so that's what he's hung up on. Still got the chip on his shoulder about the Potato famine and what...the British did to Ireland.

Then, there was no such thing as an "illegal alien."

Bunk. The phrase was in existence then. Non-White, non-English speaking people were "aliens" in British common law. Where does he think the term came from?

We needed no fences on our borders for a simple reason: Spanish speaking people were subjects of the King of Spain, and of the Catholic church. They were not considered part of the American white Protestant English speaking citizenry.

The United States owes nothing to people from either Mexico or Ireland "just trying to feed their families".

Both countries in the modern age are well equipped to do that. Any failure on their part to do that is their fault, and generates no responsibility on the part of the Americans.

Was in central Mexico for a bit recently. Climate is great, lots of arable land, Mexico city is built up and doing a lot of re-development. Their new presidente is actually talking about allowing foreign investment.

I saw no one starving. But I did see shantytowns, and I did see massive numbers of riot police, and I did see a country not anywhere as modern as its resources and climate would allow it to be.

The only people responsible for that are the people who are there, not people 1500 miles to the North.

And Ireland proper ain't even open for discussion. It isn't 1649, or 1847, and Eamon De Valera is 38 years dead now. Blaming the British for their problems is ridiculous.