Posted on 03/18/2016 12:19:08 PM PDT by Olog-hai
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday blasted House Republicans for their intention to file a legal brief challenging President Obama’s unilateral actions on immigration.
“It’s ironic that…they’re having this vote on St. Patrick’s Day,” Pelosi told a news conference. “Last night, we had a celebration of the Irish-American heritage. While I do not have Irish grandparents, I do have Irish grandchildren, and one of them was there at the dinner and we talked about immigration.”
Pelosi then turned her attention to Irish citizens who are in the United States illegally: “So, and what it’s about is all the Irish who are here — 50,000 who are here who can’t even go home for a family funeral because the law would not allow them to come back into the country. They are not here, shall we say, fully documented, and we need to change the law, comprehensive immigration reform.” …
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The can go home. Nothing is stopping them.
I don’t care. If they’re illegals, get ‘em out of here.
“can’t even go home for a family funeral because the law would not allow them to come back into the country”
The law didn’t stop them the first time they came/stayed here illegally, did it?
Illegal is illegal. If you catch them, treat them the same as you’d treat a Mexican. Give ‘em a ticket and a court date under their name of choice, and set ‘em loose. They’ll show up! < /sarc >
Precisely.
Bingo, illegal is illegal.
Mahoney, Melendez, whatever, you don’t like it, leave. And if you’re not allowed to come back because you were originally here illegally, you should have thought of that before you broke the law in the first place
Must’ve been a helluva famine or war or something in Ireland if 50,000 people suddenly need to go home today for funerals.
Well, ok, if they’re Irish they get a pass. Mexicans and Muslims are still out.
So in honesty,Pelosi admits to harboring an illegal
“Pelosi Complains: 50,000 Irish in the U.S. Illegally ‘Can’t Even Go Home for a Family Funeral’”
Aw..... For each “victim” of this “travesty”, it’s just TWO less drunks there than at an Irish wedding.
Sure they can. They just can’t come BACK.
And how did we get 50,000 illegal Irish folks? Never heard of this stat.
So we have 1% of Ireland’s population illegally in the United States. Someone text this to the DHS so they have some numbers to give to their people when they are called before the senate, please.
I’m sorry, cry me a river - there’s a process to come to this country legally, they chose to cut the line, I feel absolutely no sympathy that they’ll be pulled from line and tossed to the back.
“Must’ve been a helluva famine or war or something in Ireland if 50,000 people suddenly need to go home today for funerals.”
The Brits at them again? We’re gonna need reparations at some point. /s?
The Great Famine in Ireland began as a natural catastrophe of extraordinary magnitude, but its effects were severely worsened by the actions and inactions of the Whig government, headed by Lord John Russell in the crucial years from 1846 to 1852. A million died.
Altogether, about a million people in Ireland are reliably estimated to have died of starvation and epidemic disease between 1846 and 1851, and some two million emigrated in a period of a little more than a decade (1845-55).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/famine_01.shtml
“So, and what it’s about is all the Irish who are here — 50,000 who are here who can’t even go home for a family funeral because the law would not allow them to come back into the country”
Fact check on that, anyone? If Pelosi said it CAN’T be true. I’m sure an impartial interpretation-translation, will reveal it is (at best) a slimy leftist half-truth...
We no longer have a country when government officials espouse the rights of illegals.
I think she means they cant come back to the united states they are free to leave any time.
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