[SkyPilot]

Since Sen Kennedy radically changed our immigration laws decades ago, we don't get the Irish, Aussie, or Swiss immigrants anymore, we get the Haitians, Sudanese, and Mexicans.

This comment accompanying the article says it all:

"I would say come to America but unfortunately you're the wrong color (white) and probably the wrong religion (Christian). Neither are welcome in the USA any longer."

[Hardraade]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQn4eVdXy_w

Fleeing, are they?

[kearnyirish2]

I remember when Europeans stopped coming to the US years ago; it was a very disturbing sign (that still haunts us). Simply put, working or not, they have a better standard of living than us. During the “Celtic Tiger” boom, many Eastern Europeans went to Ireland to live & work; now they go to Germany. In both cases, they didn’t come here anymore...