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50,000 illegal migrants could be heading to our fair and green little island nation.

  • 21-11-2014 2:40pm
    #1
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭


    But fear not if you are of a xenophobic disposition.

    For they are our own illegal migrants.


    From The Irish Times

    Obama paves way for illegal Irish immigrants to visit home

    President Barack Obama has unveiled temporary measures allowing millions of illegal immigrants, including, it is estimated, thousands of Irish, to live and work in the US without the risk of being deported.

    The proposals include a relaxation of restrictions allowing qualifying Irish immigrants to travel between the US and Ireland, ending – for some – years of missing important family occasions.

    Full Article


    Great news for those who will be able to return home for visits and family occasions.

    Its going to be an extra happy Christmas in a lot of households around the country this year!

    I know a few people over there who haven't been home in 20 years, although one or two have chanced it and got away with it.

    Others have no intention of ever coming back but at least they'll be able to live and work over there without looking over their shoulder all the time.


Comments

  • #2
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,354 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Bummer?


  • #3
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Might be a good time to buy a few share in Aer Lingus ?


  • #4
    folbotcar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭folbotcar


    I wouldn't count on it just yet. The Republicans will do everything to block it. In any case it'll be a while before the legislation will get through.

    I could also do without 50,000 Irish people coming home telling us how great their life is in America and what a hole Ireland is.

    Also any of them could have come home at any stage. That was never the issue. It was getting back in was the problem.


  • #5
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,316 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    folbotcar wrote: »
    I could also do without 50,000 Irish people with american accents coming home telling us how great their life is in America and what a hole Ireland is.

    FYP

    I have family over there who moved there in the 60's. They come home to visit and keep telling everyone how amazing their life is.


  • #6
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    Grayson wrote: »
    FYP

    They come home to visit and keep telling everyone how amazing their life is.

    I used to do that .. then I realised I was being an a$$.

    Now I tell people I eat beans out of a hat with a shovel and when we get on public transport each seat has pedals and we all have to pedal otherwise we don't get to the mines on time.


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  • #7
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DOZELjx-o4


  • #8
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    And feck that with Aer Lingus shares, teeth whitening shares will be where the clever money is as we all try to out smile the visitors from across the water.


  • #9
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    Ruu wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DOZELjx-o4

    Jaysus she must be made of money, Immersion, lights on all over the place, electric rads.


  • #10
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Suppose the question will have to eventually be solved that if Obama is helping the undocumented Irish, eventually we will have to find a solution or answer to the direct provision set up.


  • #11
    intellectual dosser
    Registered Users Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭intellectual dosser


    Even if the legislation were to pass today would they be able to make avail of it for Christmas?


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  • #12
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4qzPbcFiA


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    If anyone wants to Google this they'll see that Obama is using an executive order, no need for congress to pass anything. He may as well use them for the next couple of years with the way congress is.


  • #14
    Kevin McCloud
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    They will have to build a new runway at shannon.


  • #15
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,928 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    I wonder what they will think when they get back? Big changes on the auld sod.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2YRMixW9u8


  • #16
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Deleted User wrote: »
    If anyone wants to Google this they'll see that Obama is using an executive order, no need for congress to pass anything. He may as well use them for the next couple of years with the way congress is.

    Yup, you are right. That is going to make him popular wiht congress and no doubt start a few lawsuits.


  • #17
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Them paddies will be coming over here drinking and fighting and getting everyone pregnant.


  • #18
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    Yup, you are right. That is going to make him popular wiht congress and no doubt start a few lawsuits.

    Dunno why he'd care tbh.


  • #19
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    The local radio station here had a Donegal man who’s loving in upper NY state for fifty odd years on to talk about the weather. Subject turned to Obama and the presenter asked about his thoughts, expecting the usual 'Ah shure isn't if great for the poor creaturs that canny come home' palaver, but your man says 'If they didn't come here legally like I did they should be deported!'

    Presenter, hesitates for a minute, obviously gobsmacked, 'so is the weather supposed to improve next week?' D

    I'd say there's quite a few share this man's sentiments.


  • #20
    Ben D Bus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Ben D Bus


    It never ceases to amaze me how so many people can gloss over the 'illegal' part of the term 'illegal immigrants'

    Why all the sympathy and support for 'letting them off'?


  • #21
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    a Donegal man who’s loving in upper NY state for fifty odd years
    He must have gotten hundreds of people pregnant over that time.


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  • #22
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    ScumLord wrote: »
    He must have gotten hundreds of people pregnant over that time.
    There isn't a quota on it is there?


  • #23
    The_Captain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,376 ✭✭✭The_Captain


    Can we just send them on to Australia to join the rest of our no-hopers?


  • #24
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    The_Captain wrote: »
    Can we just send them on to Australia to join the rest of our no-hopers?

    Must be nice to have a job for life and a nice pension...otherwise there is every chance you may become one of these "no-hopers".


  • #25
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,516 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    People coming back to spend time with their families and spending money here. Sounds terrible.


  • #26
    reprise
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,372 ✭✭✭reprise


    Ben D Bus wrote: »
    It never ceases to amaze me how so many people can gloss over the 'illegal' part of the term 'illegal immigrants'

    Why all the sympathy and support for 'letting them off'?

    The trick is to call them "undocumented migrants" and assume that people are too dumb to know the score.


  • #27
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    It might be a trap..."Just come in, admit you're here illegally and everything will be grand..you can travvel home and then come back....50k people hop on a jumbo and then BLAM! they slam the doors shut with an evil laugh and go "So long, suckers!"......


  • #28
    Paco Rodriguez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 701 ✭✭✭Paco Rodriguez


    No no no they are undocumented. You have to be Eastern European to be illegal immigrants


  • #29
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Are these Yanks gonna take my land?

    *loads shotgun*


  • #30
    ireland.man
    Registered Users Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭ireland.man


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Are these Yanks gonna take my land?

    *loads shotgun*

    Well they're not getting my field.


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  • #31
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,675 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    So break the laws of the country and get rewarded, it's a real smack in the eye to people who followed the correct immigration procedure.

    I heard someone on the radio this morning whinging that the same should be done here for the illegals we have hiding among us.


  • #32
    ireland.man
    Registered Users Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭ireland.man


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    So break the laws of the country and get rewarded, it's a real smack in the eye to people who followed the correct immigration procedure.

    I heard someone on the radio this morning whinging that the same should be done here for the illegals we have hiding among us.

    Why don't you find out where some of the families of these people live, hide in wait for them outside the house and then when the children finally return to see their parents and loved ones, you can jump out and give them a good talking to?


  • #33
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,675 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Suppose the question will have to eventually be solved that if Obama is helping the undocumented Irish, eventually we will have to find a solution or answer to the direct provision set up.

    Yes there is, put a stop to them having endless appeals at taxpayers expense.

    That's why the whole process drags on for years.


  • #34
    reprise
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,372 ✭✭✭reprise


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    So break the laws of the country and get rewarded, it's a real smack in the eye to people who followed the correct immigration procedure.

    I heard someone on the radio this morning whinging that the same should be done here for the illegals we have hiding among us.

    But let me guess, if America starts deportations, we shouldn't do that cos it's wacist?


  • #35
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    Ben D Bus wrote: »
    It never ceases to amaze me how so many people can gloss over the 'illegal' part of the term 'illegal immigrants'

    Why all the sympathy and support for 'letting them off'?

    Have you never noticed how the Mexicans are 'illegal immigrants' but the Irish are 'undocumented'?

    :mad:


  • #36
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Grayson wrote: »
    FYP

    I have family over there who moved there in the 60's. They come home to visit and keep telling everyone how amazing their life is.

    Aye while every house they visit puts out a spread. Everyone wants things to.appear good and it's just more noticeable if it's about another country.


    Anyways, very bitter thread here.. Accurate and but really exacting by the book hatred.


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