(Illegal) Irish Go Home!

The Buffalo News is reporting arrests in a Irish smuggling “ring.”    They weren’t terrorists from the Irish Republican Army. They had no apparent plans to cause havoc in the United States or anywhere else.  They were Irish men and women who sneaked illegally into the United States to work – usually as bartenders or waitresses in Irish pubs.   Three of them were arraigned in Buffalo’s federal court on Thursday, in connection with an investigation into the smuggling of Irish illegal aliens through Western New York. Two American citizens were arraigned on charges that they arranged the smuggling. “From everything we can determine, they’re just people who like living and working in America,” said Peter J. Smith, a supervising agent with U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement. “These people had been in America before, overstayed their visas and had been deported. Then, they came back illegally.” Click here for the full story.

KJ