Irish Illegal’s Allege Discrimination Over Minimally Increased Apprehension and Deportation Rates
Irish Central, the home page for Irish Voice, the leading Irish-American newspaper and Irish American magazine reported on October 27th that Irish illegal aliens are increasingly being targeted by the US Immigration Enforcement authorities.
In the last twelve months a total of 117 illegal Irish have been deported from the United States. This is a total increase of 23 over 2008 when only 94 illegal Irish were deported. In the same 12 month period of time 456 Irish were denied entry into the US for reasons not stated in the news release. Furthermore, the article claims that the number of Irish citizens visiting the United States has dropped by 28% in the last year alone. The increased apprehension rate of illegal alien Irish is not even remotely discriminatory in nature and it would be an entirely futile waste of good money to entertain any allegations of this nature. If anything, it appears to substantiate the federal government’s claim that the effort to apprehend illegal aliens is being pursued without discrimination or favor. Illegal aliens from Mexico, Europe, South America, Africa, Canada, England and Ireland all need to be apprehended and deported. There is nothing discriminatory about treating criminals like criminals.
While the vast majority of my mother’s family came to America from Ireland many years ago, they all came here either as free legal immigrants or they purchased passage by agreeing to serve as indentured servants. An Even earlier group, the lucky survivors of Oliver Cromwell’s genocidal campaign against Irish Catholics during a dark period of Irish history that decimated the Irish population from nearly two million to a bit above 600,000, were rounded up and sold into a life time of slavery in the British East colonies along the Amazon River or in Bermuda and the Barbados. Some of their sons and grandsons made their way to the American colonies as sailors and served on the side of freedom during the American Revolution and won their citizenship in a free America, but most died from malnutrition and disease under the harsh conditions of their sadistic British overlords. The history of Ireland and Irish immigrants is filled with stains of their blood and the tears of hopeless dismay. The persecution, suffering and discrimination they have been forced to endure over the years is as bad as any other group has ever suffered, but even still, that long suffering gives them no special license in a nation where all men are considered equal.
Generally speaking, the Irish people are a hard working and tenacious lot and the economic situation in Ireland today is as bad as it is here in the United States. I can sympathize with their desire for a better life, just as I sympathize with the Mexican and South American people who brave the Sonoran desert for the opportunities they believe they will find in our nation. However, entering the United States without proper authorization form the Immigration and Naturalization department is a crime and those who violate our nation’s immigration laws are criminals. It doesn’t matter if they are white, black, brown or green, if they come here without authorization they are criminals and everyone of them, regardless of color, religion, or country of origin should be deported.
There are thousands of people in Ireland, England, Mexico, the South American countries and all across Africa that have filed their immigration papers to come to the U.S. and many of them have waited patiently for years before they are given that opportunity. They are legal immigrants who want to come here, they want to fit in, work hard, prosper to the level they are capable of and participate in the future growth of our nation as American citizens. They are an asset to this nation and to the American people and they deserve to be recognized for the persistence of their dream and the tenacity required to achieve what they have worked hard to accomplish.
The individuals who sneak across our borders or purposely overstay their visas with the intention of remaining here illegally have clearly demonstrated their lack of respect for American laws they have violated. To remain her for any length of time they must violate additional American laws. They falsify documents to create new identities or they steal the identities of American citizens in order to find employment, obtain driver’s licenses, automobile insurance, credit cards and everything else that most American citizens take for granted. Entering the United States without the proper authorization is merely the first step on the path of numerous criminal violations that follow after as the illegal alien struggles to evade apprehension and eventual deportation. Furthermore, the estimated 40 million illegal aliens currently in the United States are the primary source of profit for numerous criminal enterprises that have evolved over the years for the sole purpose of opportunistically taking every advantage imaginable to fulfill the needs of the illegal population while accumulating large unreported profits. The Mexican drug cartels have moved into the human smuggling business to bolster their illegal profit margins and many illegal aliens repay the cost of their passage by carrying in backpacks filled with marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine manufactured in makeshift Mexican labs. Illegal aliens from Africa pay the cost of their passage by swallowing dozens of conflict diamonds and other gemstones that are then retrieved by criminal gangs after their arrival. Entire networks of counterfeiters work around the clock to produce the phony birth certificates, driver’s licenses and social security cards being sold to illegal aliens in nearly every large American city. Depending on the quality of the work, these counterfeit documents are sold for as little $50 apiece for the more amateurish attempts to thousands of dollars each for very professional work that is very hard to detect.
Recent news coverage reports have exposed illegal alien prostitution rings operating in the rural areas of many states where human smugglers have lured girls as young as 14 with promises of good paying jobs in manufacturing companies and then force them into serving as prostitutes for illegal alien farmworkers. After a few days and of being sexually abused by as many as eighty different men they are either moved to a new location or set free without money or resources to fend for themselves while their pimps count up their profits and disappear back under the rocks they climbed out of until a fresh group of youngsters can be lined up and brought across the border.
There are hundreds of illegitimate contractors using low paid illegal alien workers and phony contractors license numbers to perform shoddy roof repairs, resurface asphalt driveways, and do sub-standard concrete work all over California for unsuspecting home owners who are ultimately forced to hire real professionals capable of repairing the damage done, and in most cases, the homeowners would be luckier if the crooks just took the down payment and disappeared because the cost of repairing the shoddy work they do if they actually so anything is usually higher than if the homeowner had simply hired a reputable contractor to begin with. The cost of illegal immigration to the American taxpayers is incalculable because it includes not just the crimes committed by the individual s who come here without legal authorization, it also includes the cost of the crimes by groups taking advantage of them as well as the considerable time and effort of state and federal agencies assigned to investigate and prosecute the multitude of crimes associated with illegal immigration.
Admittedly, the illegal aliens from Ireland, England, Canada and most of the European nations see far less abuse from criminal gangs than their Mexican and South American counterparts who congregate in gang ridden neigborhoods where cirinal activity is commonplace. Most of the illegal aliens from Ireland, England, Canada and most of the European nations speak English and have some degree of education or employable skill that allows them to blend into American society much easier than the uneducated, unskilled and non-English speaking illegal’s from south of the border who make up about 75% of the nation’s illegal population. Furthermore, many of the illegal aliens coming into the US from Ireland and other English speaking countries have families and friends who are American citizens and are willing to assist them by providing them with food, financing, shelter and other necessities while they work to acquire the documentation necessary to pose as American citizens. The immigration authorities have a harder time finding them and the expense to the American taxpayers for each one found and deported far exceeds the cost of finding and deporting illegal aliens from South America and Mexico. Illegal aliens from Mexico, Canada and South America can be bused home, but the rest of them must be sent home on airplanes. The additional expense incurred in their apprehension and deportation is the primary reason why the number of apprehensions and deportations are as low as they currently are, and since the majority of this nations illegal alien population originates in Mexico and South America the disparity of apprehension and deportation statistics are entirely justifiable and the credibility of allegations regarding racial profiling are entirely without merit in light of the statistical evidence. However, illegal aliens regardless of their country of origin are by definition, criminals. No illegal alien should be ignored on the basis of national origin. No effort should be wasted to apprehend and deport them to wherever they came from because every single illegal alien in this nation is a criminal, and a nation founded on the principle of respect for the law endangers the credibility of it entire structure by ineffectively enforcing laws that have been established for the protection of its citizens.
The congressional oath of office includes the obligation to protect American citizens from foreign invaders, and no matter how you look at it, 40 million illegal aliens is an invasion. The American people have quietly endured the lack of congressional accountability for too long and substantial evidence indicates that illegal immigration has played a major role in this nation’s economic problems which have adversely affected so many American families. Partisanship and the struggle for control by one political party over the other must stop, the balance of government must be restored and our elected representatives must be held strictly accountable for their failure to fulfill the obligations of their office. The abysmally low approval rating of the U.S. Congress is sufficient justification for the American people to purge that branch of government of every incumbent and replace them with representatives capable of representing the American constituencies. The argument that legislative experience is necessary is without merit. The United States Congress is loaded with representatives who have ineffectively represented the special interest groups of this nation for decades while the American people have been forced to shoulder the burden. Experience at being a corrupt politician is not what this nation needs. We need new faces, individuals with a sound sense of integrity and honesty, people who will take their oath of office seriously and dedicate themselves to representing the best interests of the American people and nothing else. Throughout the last presidential campaign Barack Obama promised change and hope. In the last nine or ten months he has delivered nothing on those promises, pushed our nation closer to the edge of economic ruin and it will take decades for American families he has pushed into poverty to recover. The one change he has accomplished has been to start the transformation of our once prosperous capitalistic free market economy into a socialist tyranny while turning the individual citizen’s freedom and liberty into untold decades of indentured servitude demanding oppressive tax burdens to repay the loans he has taken from foreign nations to artificially prop up a failing over regulated economy. I the American people want to see true change, real change, change that results in an honest corruption free government, change that results in the restoration of power by the people and for the people, change that results in the annihilation congressional abridgements eroding our constitutionally guaranteed inalienable rights, and change that unifies all American citizens instead of constantly dividing them into warring and intolerant factions, then we the citizens and legal residents of this nation must affect those changes by voting to eliminate every incompetent politician currently holding office in state and federal government and replacing them with true representatives who are willing to work effectively in our best interests or suffer the consequences of our disapproval by being ejected from office. The United States of America is the property of the American citizens and the government‘s full authority comes from us. We are not their servants and it is high time we let them know that their continued incompetence will result in their unemployment.
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