Posted on 09/22/2008 3:11:37 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
SCRANTON, Pa. -- An issue that has been largely missing from the English-language presidential debate recently -- immigration reform -- made a brief return here this morning when Republican John McCain addressed a largely Irish-American crowd.
McCain said there were "50,000 Irish men and women in this country illegally who want to become citizens'' and that "we have to give them a path to citizenship."
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I dont care if there are illegal aliens from Klingon...no amnesty means no amnesty....McCain trying to make this a race issue than a “law” issue...
Just great. Yet ANOTHER illegal immigrant group that can’t speak proper English!
How’s this for a “Path to Citizenship?”
GO BACK TO IRELAND, GET IN LINE, DO IT LEGALLY!
Send home all 50.000 illegal Irish folk with the 20 million Mexican’ts and Southern Americans. No path to citizenship for illegals. I don’t care, I’m not voting for McCain. I refuse to keep on voting for the lesser of two evils.
Unfortunately, not voting for the lesser of two evils, will give us the greater of two evils.
And for those bleeding hearts that come to this site all the time; I am a naturalized proud American Citizen; and I value this country, the founding fathers, and what they stood for, more than gold.
Illegal is Illegal. Doesn’t matter where they come from. Round ‘em up and throw ‘em out.
In any case, go home. Try to come back legally.
Enforce to the fullest extent of the law fines and prison time for employers of illegal aliens.
Secure the borders!
What is wrong with McLame? I have a Scottish colleague who has been going through the whole bureaucratic rigamarole for several years to get her green card. She even had the leave the country for a year and then come back. Why should any lawbreaking illegal alien get to jump ahead of her?
If they jumped the line we should ship their Irish asses right back to Ireland. Enough is enough.
I agree. Back in the '80s, I lived in Boston and there were tons of Irish illegals. The men worked in the building trades (loads of house painters) and the women were nannies and such.
Agree! As an American whose maternal and paternal grandparents emigrated LEGALLY in 1900 from Ireland I say: “Return home and do it legally!”
I started listening to this amnesty hustler as I was getting ready for work this morning. I sent him a scathing e-mail as I am wont to do on this matter.The good thing about the speech he gave to this particular audience is that the loud applause went up when he said we must first secure the borders, then fine employers who hire illegal aliens.
Then he hit the audience with that euphemistic stand-at-the-back-of-the-line path to citizenship crapola--and only scant and muted applause came forth.
What a lying b_d he is! Let's hope Steve Schmidt knows better and turns McCain away from pushing his "comprehensive" stuff the rest of this campaign.
You can tell I'm still plenty hot over what I heard this morning. Changing positions I can handle; lying I cannot.
Regards . . . Penny
I don’t care where they are from, illegal is illegal. They need to go home.
Most of us are just doing our best to get you in, and then planning to make it impossible for you to get an amnesty bill on your desk, since we know you'd sign it. And otherwise, you'll have a darn good Presidency. But you need to get elected first. Capice?
They need to go home like everyone else and get in line as my great grandparents had to. And so do the Mexicans and every other illegal alien that has broken into the country. The Irish from both the Republic and Northern Ireland have legal ways they can come and work in the US that other countries don’t, it was a special program setup just for them and every year there are visas that go wanting. But I bet mccain isn’t even aware of it just as he knows nothing about the dozens of guest worker programs we already have.
Just keeps getting better, doesn’t it?
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