"But we don't want the Irish."
Posted on 05/22/2017 6:49:54 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Since President Trump took office, according to ICE, about 11,000 undocumented people with no criminal records have been detained -- twice as many as last year. Now, the number of religious institutions across the country offering sanctuary has doubled to more than 800.
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Jim Kenney: Well, you know, Ellis Island had opened in 1892. The bulk of Irish Diaspora came to America in the 1840s. We didn't have papers either. We were undocumented. There was an anti-Italian slur, when I was growing up in my neighborhood called W-O-P—that's without papers.
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I can trace my ancestors, too. And they came into the US legally, too! They didn’t sneak thru the back doors, they came through the gates and signed in.
If it’s any consolation, God hates liars.
"But we don't want the Irish."
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