Mattlikewhoa
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...Right... Give me a damn break.
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ICE bust of local leader puts Bostons illegal Irish on edge
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...Right... Give me a damn break.
If it makes you feel any better most native Irish citizens will read this and say "serves you right you feckin eedjit"
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
You realize that the Irish International Immigration Center doesn't just help Irish people right?
Guy runs an organization that helps people from hundreds of different countries with free legal clinics, ESOL and education programs and people are immediately calling him a racist because of a perfectly normal statement.
who called him a racist?
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
What would you call a guy who was cool with people being deported but only as long as they are brown?
Trump's voter
Yeah, she has dual citizenship.
Gobshite. They could have at least blurred out his face.
That no one watches RTE?
That no one watches RTE?
Well we did stop him building a sea wall on a public beach at his hotel in Ireland.
If there is a massive increase in Irish being deported I suspect it would be revenge for that.
Beer Monkey
Member
Does anyone have am answer to this? Genuinely curious myself.
*calls timeout*
Are they going after EVERYONE that is here illegally or just one specific ethnic group the far right has an intense media driven anger towards? Let's just say that I have doubts that such a strategy could continue if they target everyone, from all backgrounds, here illegally. Deporting people for being here illegally under the current political subtext makes America look terrible around the world.
Are they going after EVERYONE that is here illegally or just one specific ethnic group the far right has an intense media driven anger towards? Let's just say that I have doubts that such a strategy could continue if they target everyone, from all backgrounds, here illegally. Deporting people for being here illegally under the current political subtext makes America look terrible around the world.
That honestly wouldn't surprise me.
I remember seeing promotions for that TV programme at the time, and thinking how audacious it was for this guy to be out talking openly about this. Did he think he was untouchable? Why? There was something either very arrogant or very naive about it.
I feel sorry for his family, if he has family still in the states. But his actions were idiotic.
I feel sorry for his family, if he has family still in the states. But his actions were idiotic.
It is. This guy was featured in an Irish documentary on illegals in America.
The funny thing about Irish illegals is that they and the Irish media refer to them as "undocumented Irish" as if they are better and more deserving of staying than those illegals that Trump hates...
Spaced Harrier
Member
Yeah that's always pissed me off.
Well that's the question isn't it?
I'd say most die hard Trump supporters were fine with this staunch anti-immigration routine when it was just about scary brown people. Trouble is, it looks like ICE doesn't see color, and now a whole lot of white people have to be worried too.
And if this gets traction, I'd expect ICE to be stopped in their tracks.
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JoJo UK
Unconfirmed Member
When on honeymoon in Florida the manager of a Cracker Barrel store struck up a conversation with me when he found out my wife and I were from Northern Ireland. He wanted to do a house swap for 3 - 6 months as he wanted to visit the country his family had originated from. I politely declined, though I can't say I wasn't tempted...
EDIT: Also the amount of people I know who have... 'immigrated' to the USA from Ireland is staggering. It happens way more than I thought (Australia too).
ShiroAmakusa
Member
Why the fuck is everybody assuming this guy is a Trump supporter? And a racist?
He blames the Trump administration for not focusing exclusively on criminals, ignoring the contributions of the immigrant in question, and not prioritizing enforcement (presumably against criminals, since he believes they should be targeted exclusively). For somebody who has been living in the US illegally since 2003, how is anything in his statement objectionable?
You are all just fictionalizing a Trump connection and racial overtones that do not exist, and then congratulating each other for it. "Haha, caught another filthy Trump supporter!"
He blames the Trump administration for not focusing exclusively on criminals, ignoring the contributions of the immigrant in question, and not prioritizing enforcement (presumably against criminals, since he believes they should be targeted exclusively). For somebody who has been living in the US illegally since 2003, how is anything in his statement objectionable?
You are all just fictionalizing a Trump connection and racial overtones that do not exist, and then congratulating each other for it. "Haha, caught another filthy Trump supporter!"
Sarcastic Poster
Member
That would be nice. Before the people in charge in Murica pitted the underclasses against each other in order to generate racial tension.
An dtuigeann tú = Irish for "Do you understand?" = "You dig?" in American slang (supposedly)
RTE used the word "illegal" plenty referring to Irish in that documentary on the either month.
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
Plus I'm pretty sure 'this guy' he is referring to is the guy who got deported, not the man who made the supposed 'dog whistle' statement.
Waylon Drums
Member
Being from South Boston, I'm sure that all of my Trump-loving former neighbors are outraged at this. Shitheads.
He's commenting on Trump's "bad hombres" policy, that they're not going after all offenders. He's saying that's obviously not true.
I think you'd need to check Quincy at this point. Southie is a changing.
Friendship is a 2-way street though and as soon as they got their invite to join the team... well.. you know the story. The response from black folk would probably be:
But I'm 99.9999999% positive this scenario would never happen anyways
Neuromancer
Member
People who break criminal laws in the US and up in jail. That was Obamas priority for deportation.
Being here illegally is not a criminal act. It's an administrative violation.
Don't understand the hate this guy is getting in this thread. The number of Boston Irish being deported hasn't gone up despite ICE ramping up under Trump, it took this guy calling out Ice on TV to get them to pay attention to him while they're going after DACA students.
If anything I applaud him for helping to point out that illegal immigrants aren't criminal scum, they're community members who give back far more than they take from the system, which George Bush Sr pointed out 25 years ago.
If anything I applaud him for helping to point out that illegal immigrants aren't criminal scum, they're community members who give back far more than they take from the system, which George Bush Sr pointed out 25 years ago.