Teddy is gone, and Hillary will not be president! McCain in fact may be going. That Teddy is gone means you no longer have to create visas for Tijuana and Tanganyika.
A month is a long time in politics and several months a lifetime, but it looks like the Dems are going down in November.
O’Dowd is moving towards reality. If he is not, his Irish Government financial backers are.
Small is the way to go right now, especially when we are in a big time recession.
The Dream Act beneficiaries could petition for their parents in due course.
The IIRM knew one thing that escaped O'Dowd's notice. To help the Irish, if that was really his object, you must engage the Irish American Community in all its diversity.
I think the amnesty folks looked upon O’Dowd as what the communists used to call a “useful idiot.” He helped to put a white face on the problem. That was helpful to the cause.
Now I suspect it would be harder than in 1987-88, much harder to do any good for those Irish who did not get visas last time out of the chute. The ties are more tenuous. Americans have been fed the Celtic Tiger stuff for a long time and times here are tough all around.
The Irish used to take up about 9,000 to 10,000 of their 16,000 visas each year in the 1950s and 60s. They spoke English and were virtually unnoticeable.
Nowadays, we are talking millions of immigrants who are quite noticeable and it does not go unnoticed that some of them take sojourns in Afghanistan.
A month is a long time in politics and several months a lifetime, but it looks like the Dems are going down in November.
O’Dowd is moving towards reality. If he is not, his Irish Government financial backers are.
Small is the way to go right now, especially when we are in a big time recession.
The Dream Act beneficiaries could petition for their parents in due course.
The IIRM knew one thing that escaped O'Dowd's notice. To help the Irish, if that was really his object, you must engage the Irish American Community in all its diversity.
I think the amnesty folks looked upon O’Dowd as what the communists used to call a “useful idiot.” He helped to put a white face on the problem. That was helpful to the cause.
Now I suspect it would be harder than in 1987-88, much harder to do any good for those Irish who did not get visas last time out of the chute. The ties are more tenuous. Americans have been fed the Celtic Tiger stuff for a long time and times here are tough all around.
The Irish used to take up about 9,000 to 10,000 of their 16,000 visas each year in the 1950s and 60s. They spoke English and were virtually unnoticeable.
Nowadays, we are talking millions of immigrants who are quite noticeable and it does not go unnoticed that some of them take sojourns in Afghanistan.
IIRM Veteran
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