Irish were Latinos of their day

The Denver Post ^ | 4/01/2006 | Bob Ewegen

[Conservative4Ever]

Hear, Hear....the Irish came here legally, paid their dues, so to speak..and didn't try to make the US a little Ireland. I live in SoCal...what is happening is making me kinda nervous.

[dljordan]

"We faced many of those Irish mercenaries in the War of Northern Aggresion,
the ranks of the invaders were filled with many foreigners, from many lands,
while we were true born Americans."

The South had Irish regiments too. My own people were Scots-Irish and fought in the 1st and 10th Tennessee.

[trubluolyguy]

Are you saying that someone who swims the Rio to get here illegally isn't a wetback when he gets out of the water on the other side?

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No. I am saying that is an illegal invader of my country. For me racism doesn't even enter into it. Apparantly for you, it does.

[John Filson]

Scum indeed.

[PeteB570]

There were Irish, Canadians, French and other foreign born who fought on the side of the south, as well as the north.

Whoops, I guess that doesn't fit in with revisionist history.

[MinorityRepublican]

The Irish were known as the White N****** and now the Hispanics are known as S****

[ansel12]

"The Irish, God love em, more then paid their fair share to their new homeland, USA or CSA:"


I was trying to have a little fun, but your post is more correct,

The Irish really gave a lot of blood to America, including the Indian Fighting Army after the Civil War.

And of course I'm part Irish too, although it's not my favorite bloodline.

[Michael.SF.]

the ranks of the invaders were filled with many foreigners, from many lands, while we were true born Americans.

Sorry friend, but the Irish fought on both sides of the war. Savannah, Ga. had a huge Irish influx, possibly third in the country after NY and Boston.

[Old_Mil]

America had virtually no bars to immigration in those days.

America had no rush hour, medicaid, or national debt in those days either.

[DumpsterDiver]

To the jerk that is trying to make this straw-argument, GFY.

His e-mail address is: bewegen@denverpost.com

And just in case you ever need it, there's this website.

;^)

[alarm rider]

"I agree that the Mexicans are not interested in becoming Americans, but can we leave the racism to them?"

And just what "race" are Mexicans? Do you mean ethnic group?

[trubluolyguy]

And just what "race" are Mexicans? Do you mean ethnic group?

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Ok, sure.

[Michael.SF.]

S****

Please use your spell check. I believe you meant:

S***

;)

[JAWs]

...and the American people welcomed them with open arms...

Hardly the case. Nativism and anti-Catholicism ran rife in reaction to Irish immigration.

[satchmodog9]

Irish also did not refuse to assimilate and speaka da language.

[stormlead]

'wetback' is a racist epithet, and doesn't help the argument. Racism is also against FR policy- and why would you want to forfeit the moral high ground in a discussion on illegal immigration where you are right?

[JAWs]

Plenty of Irish fought for the Rebs too.

[Michael.SF.]

America had virtually no bars

And probably no happy hour either!

[MOgirl]

Hello,

That is the rub, that is the issue that our stupid politicians (who believe that they are above each and every one of us) will not get. They won't get it because they foolishly believe that the illegals will ultimately vote for them. This situation is far more serious than even I knew, and I figured out the state of crap we are in while watching the Mexican flags during their nice little "demonstrations".

Glad to be here, MOgirl