In a nation made of immigrants, this current hate for immigrants confuses me. When my ancestors came here, there were no signs saying "Fàilte Dhachaigh!" (welcome home) or "Is breá linn an Ghaeilge!" (we love the Irish). Nobody tried to send us to Martha's Vineyard either, although I would have gone. It's pretty cool there. There's an awful lot of folks in the Choctaw nation who can attest to the fact that we weren't invited. English speakers already here considered my ancestors vermin. People were still calling the Irish "broom pushers" when Kennedy was elected, and some afterward.
I get that the number of immigrants is intimidating. Their backgrounds are questionable. They're beyond poor, and they don't speak English. How different were the ships filled with desperate souls from Glasgow, Perth, or Aberdeen? I'm Irish, Scottish, and Ulster-Scott, and I stand against this. It's not right to deny others what was given to us.
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