Posted on 02/26/2008 12:54:57 PM PST by FewsOrange
Born Irish, but With Illegal Parents By JASON DePARLE
DUBLIN — Cork-born and proud of it, George-Jordan Dimbo is top to toe the Irish lad. He studies Gaelic, eats rashers, plays hurling, prays to the saints, papers his walls with parochial school awards, and spends Saturdays at the telly watching Dustin the Turkey, a wisecracking puppet, mock the powerful.
If the Irish government has its way, he may soon be living in Africa. George, 11, is an Irish citizen and has been since his birth when Ireland, alone in Europe, still gave citizenship to anyone born on its soil. His mother and father, Ifedinma and Ethelbert Dimbo, are illegal immigrants from Nigeria, who brought him back to Ireland three years ago, judging it the best place to raise him.
Since then, the unusual trio — the Irish schoolboy and his African parents — have shared a single room in a worn Dublin hostel while facing a prospect dreaded by children on both sides of the Atlantic, a parent’s deportation. “Dear justice minister,” George wrote when he was 9. “I heard my Mommy and Daddy whispering about deportation. Please do not deport us.” “Remember,” he added, “I am also an Irish child.” Thousands of Irish children face similar risks, living in a country where one or both parents do not legally reside. ... The battle over the “I.B.C.’s” — Irish-born children — stems from a decade of head-turning change that has brought this island of red-haired Marys and blue-eyed Seans the demographic version of an extreme makeover. For centuries, Ireland was a racially homogenous land of emigrants. Now it is a multicultural nation of immigrants...
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Ireland needs to build a wall....
oh, wait....
nevermind
I feel for the lad, of course, but his having to leave (as a practical matter) would not be the government’s fault for deporting his lawbreaking parents. It would be the fault of the parents themselves. Breaking laws has consequences.
ok, so we have to be politically correct, and not do anything because we’re supposed to be compassionate. I get it. Heard this same type of story so many times.
It sounds racist, but people do not travel to Ireland to see a balkanized nation, or even France. The unique flavor of these European nations are being diluted by immigration. The USA and Canada are different, we were built by immigration, but countries like Japan, Ireland, and Germany and Sweden will lose their uniqueness by immigration. Plus they will lose tourist dollars as well, when the Irish pubs are being replaced by Muslim oriented shops.
If they are not supposed to be there, and broke the laws by entering, should they stay?
Maybe in the not so distant future, Ireland can be just like Somalia, or even better, Zimbabwe.
And his Irish uncle, Barack O'Bama.
It will be a shame. Ireland and other European nations are losing their special and indigenous identities which made them special and different because of massive immigration.
Good one...
I guess you’d call him “black Irish.”
I suspect the average American would be more sympathetic to illegal aliens if, as in this story, they waved American flags and talked about assimilation instead of carving out new national enclaves in this country and chanting “si se puede”.
If you ever get a chance to hear Dunstin the Turkey sing “Fairytale of New York” by the Pogues, it’s hilarious!
Typical lieberal media sob story hit-piece. Women and children hardest hit.
Some background information:
Nationalities in Ireland: Irish (including dual-Irish/other): 88.9%, UK: 2.7%, Other EU 25: 3.9%, Other Europe: 0.6%, Africa: 0.8%, Asia: 1.1%, USA: 0.3%, Other countries: 0.5%, Multiple nationality: 0.1%, No nationality: 0.0%, Not stated: 1.1% (2006)
Ethnic backgrounds: White: 94.8% (including 0.5% Irish Traveller), Asian: 1.3%, Black: 1.1%, Other/Mixed: 1.1%, Not Stated: 1.7% (2006)
It would seem that they had been deported once before.
I guess you’d call him “black Irish.”Damn It You Beat Me To It. :o
No one ever reports on the effects illegal alienism has on a country’s citizens and legal immigrants.
Why should people legally allowed to be in a country be displaced by those who entered illegally
We need to stop valuing the rights of illegals over the rights of citizens. Not just in the USA, but throughout the world
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That no stream like the Liffey can ever compare
If it's water you want you'll find nothing more rare
Than the stuff they make down by the ocean
The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide
Long may it stay between England and me
It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free
Oh! thank God we're surrounded by water
Tom Moore made his waters meet fame and renown
A great lover of anything dressed in a crown
In brandy the bandy old Saxon he'd drown
But throw ne'er a one into the ocean
The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide
Long may it stay between England and me
It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free
Oh! thank God we're surrounded by water
The Scots have their whisky, the Welsh have their speech
And their poets are paid about ten pence a week
Provided no hard words on England they speak
Oh Lord! What a price for devotion!
The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide
Long may it stay between England and me
It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free
Oh! thank God we're surrounded by water
The Danes came to Ireland with nothing to do
But dream of the plundered old Irish they slew
"Yeh will in your Vikings", said Brian Boru
And threw them back in the ocean
The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide
Long may it stay between England and me
It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free
Oh! thank God we're surrounded by water
Two foreign old monarchs in battle did join
Each wanting their head on the back of a coin
If the Irish had sense they'd drown both in the Boyne
And Partition throw into the ocean
The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide
Long may it stay between England and me
It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free
Oh! thank God we're surrounded by water
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