Subj : Immigration
To   : All
From : Dale Shipp
Date : Sun Oct 23 2022 01:15:06


As a counter to all of the heated discussion over the number of
migrants/refugees/illegal aliens coming into the USA over the last
decade over the Southern border:  Consider the mid 19th century and
Ireland.  If you take a look, one can find various numbers for different
periods, with many of the estimates overlapping in time.  Here are some
of those numbers:

4.5 million from 1841 to WWII
~1  million from 1851 to 1860
~2  million from 1845 to 1852
~3  million from 1820 to 1880

Whichever set of numbers one uses, it is clear that there were hundreds
of thousands of migrants each year for more than a decade after the
potato famine.

These people were not deported.  For the most part, they established
themselves as productive members of society.  Another estimate is that
1/3 of the USA population claims Irish heritage.

SO -- why is the current influx from the Southern border such a
political hot potato?

                               Dale Shipp
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