Irish pro-illegal morons speak. BEYOND ARROGANT
I'm dumb-struck by the incredible arrogance expressed in this article by a pro-illegal Irish jerk. Makes me ashamed of my Irish roots. As I've said many times: I don't give a damn where someone is from. All I ask is that they be here with permission or get the hell out. This nation doesn't owe them shit but a whole lot of people owe this nation everything.
But illegal immigration from Ireland continues though much diminished from the 1970s and '80s, when thousands arrived, re-populating onetime Irish neighborhoods in Queens and the Bronx. After years of living illegally, many of those immigrants got their green cards, courtesy of the Donnelly visas (1987) and the Morrison visas (1990), which together provided some 62,000 Irish-born people with papers.
Those numbers still left many without legal protection. Add in a later wavelet of immigration that arrived here despite the 1990s boom in the Irish economy, and "there are now between 25,000 and 50,000 undocumented Irish immigrants in the country, with the number probably closer to 50,000" says Siobhan Dennehy, executive director of the Emerald Isle Immigration Center.
"What we want is a path to legal immigration." he says. "Most people realize you can't take seven or eight million people and put them on planes and send them back to countries around the globe. People are here," he says. "Deal with it?" What? "Deal with it?" Ohhh, how I'd love to deal with it. I'd start by deporting that arrogant son-of-a-Irish cow whether he claims citizenship or not.
What about Ireland's laws? This is from 2004 but you'll see the total hypocrisy. These assholes want a better deal for Irish illegals than Ireland offers. Jerks.
First, a Supreme Court judgment in January 2003 removed the automatic right to permanent residence for non-national parents of Irish-born children. This ruling followed a rapidly increasing number of applications for asylum, some of which were thought to be unfounded and in abuse of Ireland's asylum system and citizenship laws. More recently, the government proposed a national "citizenship referendum" to eliminate an Irish-born child's automatic right to citizenship when the parents are not Irish nationals. The public overwhelmingly passed this referendum in June 2004. Both measures led to heated debates in Ireland and were noted abroad. They no longer give birthright citizenship to children of immgirants. Good idea.
In recent years, Ireland has passed a number of laws aimed at combating illegal immigration. Together, these laws provide a legal basis for deporting non-nationals in violation of Ireland's immigration laws, ban the trafficking of illegal immigrants and the carrying of a passenger who does not have proper immigration documents, and financially penalize or imprison employers and workers who do not comply with the Employment Permits Act 2003. In addition, illegal residents' access to some state benefits has been restricted.
Another measure to curb illegal immigration and illegal working has been an increase in the number of deportations, up from 188 in 2000 to 590 in 2003. To facilitate repatriation, Ireland has struck return agreements with Poland, Nigeria, Romania, and Bulgaria, and has also engaged the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to operate voluntary return programs on its behalf.
The lack of hard data or any systematic evidence makes it difficult to assess the extent to which Ireland's current immigration and employment laws are actually enforced. The increased level of legislation and deportations suggests that the government is expanding its efforts to combat illegal immigration.
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