Immigration: It Turns Out The Irish Are The “New Irish”

It is fascinating to read how the immigrants today are exactly like the immigrants of the late 1800s and early 1900s. My Irish grandparents came here then and had a very hard time. Just like the Germans, Italians and Jewish and others. - - Donna Poisl

By Douglas Rivlin, NEWS JUNKIE POST

When they think of immigration reform at all, most folks think about Mexicans. Because of their visibility, their numbers, and the fact that they make up a huge percentage of those immigrants in the U.S. illegally, Mexicans have become the face of the immigration issue in America.

There are significant populations here from Central America, South America, the Caribbean, East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, African and other regions – and significant percentages of them are also undocumented – but for most Americans, when they say “immigrants,” they mean “Mexicans.”
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