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@butthole666 posted...

Medz1206 posted...

darkphoenix181 posted...

curious, did the Irish sneak in and avoid immigration officials?

Do y'all really think illegal immigration is something new and exclusive to brown people


Like are you real people that seriously think like this lmao

so where is your citation about thousands of Irish entering illegally?

I asked a question but rather than answer it honestly you divert to something like "oh really, I mean I can't answer that but, cmon they must have cause I want it to be true!"


From the tc article:

With immigration controls left primarily to the states and cities, the Irish poured through a porous border. In Boston, a city of a little more than 100,000 people saw 37,000 Irish arrive in the matter of a few years. Naturally, it was difficult to integrate the newcomers in such sheer numbers. The Irish in Boston were for a long time “fated to remain a massive lump in the community, undigested, undigestible,” according to historian Oscar Handlin, author of “Boston’s Immigrants, 1790-1880: A Study in Acculturation.”

so what law was being broke?

they were also refugees

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/07/24/the-myths-illegal-immigration/Od1tk9ISJCvZgfjQdZeGYK/story.html

One thing they weren’t called, though, was “illegal,” because that term hadn’t been conceived yet

People are shocked when I say before World War I, there were no green cards, no visas, no quotas, no passports, even. Really, you just showed up. And if you could walk without a limp, and you had $30 in your pocket, you walked right in,” said Mae Ngai, a legal and political historian at Columbia University, whose studies focus on immigration.

It’s worth remembering how malleable the rules of immigration have been, as each successive wave of foreigners has come across the border, drawing resistance from those who came before. And that mid-19th-century wave is especially noteworthy, because of the role Massachusetts played.

tl;dr

they didn't break the law coming here as the law didn't prevent them from doing so


@hortanz


so let's not be dishonest here

prove me wrong

show they were illegal

or are you unable to?
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