Now those Irish grandkids are worried that the hordes of unwashed Mexican illegals, rutting like beasts and marinating in liquor are destroying America.
Pathetic.
And from the 1920’s to the 1960’s the US shut down the immigration spigot. So, all those immigrants were able to be assimilated, Raise their economic staturs and we developed a stable national idendity, and prospered.
This WILL NOT happen as long as we allow an unchecked invasion from overseas to continue. THAT’s the big differnce.
I don’t think we can compare the Irish to the Hispanics. They, like most immigrants then, were part of a common European culture and saw America as a land of opportunity. They wanted to become assimilated and work hard to be productive and successful. And they did. All newly arrived immigrant groups had some initial difficulties. It may have been language or various other cultural things. But they all wanted to adapt to American ways. They didn’t form a cultural underclass and expect our society to change for them. Chinese and other Asians are good examples. Few immigrants faced greater difficulties than they. But they succeeded extremely well in becoming an asset to our nation.
You left off the sarcasm tag. What is happening today is unprecedented in our history. Legal immigration alone in the 1990s likely matched or exceeded the previous historical peak decade of 1901-1910, when 8.8 million legal immigrants were admitted. Adding the settlement of illegal aliens makes the 1990s without doubt the period of greatest immigration in America's history.
During the 1990s, an average of more than 1.3 million immigrants — legal and illegal — settled in the United States each year. Between January 2000 and March 2002, 3.3 million additional immigrants have arrived. In less than 50 years, the U.S. Census Bureau projects that immigration will cause the population of the United States to increase from its present 301 million to more than 400 million.
The foreign-born population of the United States is currently 33.1 million, equal to 11.5 percent of the U.S. population. Of this total, the Census Bureau estimates 8-9 million are illegal immigrants. Other estimates indicate a considerably higher number of illegal immigrants.
Approximately 1 million people receive permanent residency annually. In addition, the Census Bureau estimates a net increase of 500,000 illegal immigrants annually.
The present level of immigration is significantly higher than the average historical level of immigration. This flow may be attributed, in part, to the extraordinary broadening of U.S. immigration policy in 1965. Since 1970, more than 30 million legal and illegal immigrants have settled in the U.S., representing more than one-third of all people ever to come to America's shores.
At the peak of the Great Wave of immigration in 1910, the number of immigrants living in the U.S. was less than half of what it is today, though the percentage of the population was slightly higher. The annual arrival of 1.5 million legal and illegal immigrants, coupled with 750,000 annual births to immigrant women, is the determinate factor— or three-fourths— of all U.S. population growth.
Big difference between Irish immigrants of 100 years ago and the current trend of hispanic illegals overwhelming our country. You should know better, FRiend.