Subj : Re: Immigration
To   : Dale Shipp
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Sun Oct 23 2022 01:16:34

On 23 Oct 2022, Dale Shipp said the following...
 DS> Whichever set of numbers one uses, it is clear that there were hundreds
 DS> of thousands of migrants each year for more than a decade after the
 DS> potato famine.
 DS> These people were not deported.  For the most part, they established
 DS> themselves as productive members of society.  Another estimate is that
 DS> 1/3 of the USA population claims Irish heritage.
 DS> SO -- why is the current influx from the Southern border such a
 DS> political hot potato?

Irish immigration was a political hot potato, too, with the added stigma that
they were Catholics coming into a largely Protestant country (apparently that
meant a lot more back then).

Jeff.

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