[Az Joe]

The refugees seeking haven in America were poor and disease-ridden. They threatened to take jobs away from Americans and strain welfare budgets. They practiced an alien religion and pledged allegiance to a foreign leader. They were bringing with them crime. They were accused of being rapists. And, worst of all, these undesirables were Irish.

[jerod]

Whoa, whoa, whoa.... When did America stop despising the Irish????

[Georgia Girl 2]

First they were not illegals. The Irish came here legally. They spoke English, didn’t get welfare, were christian and immediately began to assimilate.

Second. Over the span of 150 years 4.7 million Irish came to the US.

Since 1986 11-30 million illegal Hispanics have arrived. Most from Mexico. They have not assimilated because they are well illegal. They suck our welfare system,education and healthcare dry. It just ain’t the same thing.

[SuperLuminal]

This absolutely not analogous too today's problems...The Irish were immigrants (under the law) and within a couple of generations had fully integrated into U.S. society (the olde "melting pot" concept at work).

The issue today is related to illegal foreign migrants (NOT immigrants) who are more inclined to "infiltrate" U.S. society stealing jobs and income, destroying the K-12 education system, and funneling untaxed money (about 28,000,000,000 dollars-per-year) to their shole countries of which they remain citizens and to which they still owe principal allegiance.