More on the “Luck” of the Irish (Immigrants)

Gregory Rodriguez writes about Irish immigrants in the L.A. Times (here) today:

IMAGINE HILLARY Clinton holding up a T-shirt that read: “Legalize Mexicans.” That’s not going to happen, right? Well, last month in Washington, at a rally hosted by the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, the leading Democratic candidate for president actually did have her picture taken holding a shirt that read: “Legalize the Irish.” That’s the lobby’s in-your-face slogan, which says a lot about the role that race (and ethnicity) plays in the debate about illegal immigration. Latino activists bend over backward trying to cloak undocumented Mexican migrants in the slogan “We are America,” but their Irish counterparts don’t feel similarly obliged.

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I do not know about you but I will not be holding my breadth waiting for a bona fide Presidential candidate to hold up a shirt that says “Legalize Mexicans.”

KJ