Actually, Clint, there are 11,000 illegal Irish immigrants in the US. A lot of them live in NY and Boston and other places in the Northeast.
We have a pretty big illegal Irish population in Atlanta too. Go figure.
I lived in NYC in the late 80's. I could tell you of a certain Irish bar on 2nd Avenue where you could walk in an unemployed Irish illegal alien and walk out fully employed, papers in hand and an apartment to boot!
That's not the point. How many Irish protested in the streets with their flags when the congress was debating making it a federal crime enter the US illegally?
That answer is none so it's a non sequitur.