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GAINESVILLE DAILY REGISTER
4- FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2018
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The Irish ran wild, lynching blacks and burning black
establishments to the ground. As described in Leslie M.
Harris’ book “In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans
in New York City, 1626-1863,” the Irish rioters “made a sport
of mutilating the black men’s bodies, sometimes sexually. A
group of white men and boys mortally attacked black sailor
William Williams — jumping on his chest, plunging a knife
into him, smashing his body with stones — while a crowd of
men, women and children watched.”
Luckily for the Irish, there were no ethnic activist groups
leaping in to excuse their bad behavior. President Lincoln
sent in federal troops to crush the savage uprising. (Hey,
President Trump! Lincoln is a very popular president!)
And these were European immigrants, most of whom
spoke English, contrary to the claptrap you’ve heard in
reaction to Kelly’s remark this past week. Today we’re
getting peasants who not only don’t speak English,
they don’t even speak Spanish and are also illiterate
in their own dialects.
The Irish were driven out of their country by a
one-time calamity — the potato famine. This wasn’t
how they always lived. Starving poverty wasn’t their
culture.
Still, the Irish were — at one time — among
the poorest immigrants we ever got and the
slowest to assimilate. It took 120 years, by political analyst
Michael Barone’s estimate. (Imagine a time when our worst
immigrants were the Irish!)
And they might still be a problem if The New York Times
had demanded special rights for them, the ACLU had brought
lawsuits on their behalf and the Southern Poverty Law Center
had screamed “racism” whenever anyone noticed their bad
behavior.
Instead, no-nonsense Irish priests knocked them upside the
head and told them to sober up and go home to their wives.
(Back then, the Catholic Church was not about “immigrant
rights”; it was about cleaning up their own bums.)
By the 1950s, the Irish were outearning other Americans.
Many reformed so well that they became Republicans.
That was then, this is now.
New YorkTimes bestselling author and syndicated columnist Ann Coulter is
a graduate of Cornell University and the University of Michigan Law School.
She was a law clerk for the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, legal counsel to Sen.
Spencer Abraham on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and practiced corporate
law. She was a political pundit for MSNBC from 1996 to 1999.
In an interview with NPR last Friday, Trump’s chief of staff
John Kelly described the illegal aliens pouring across our
border in the most gentle manner imaginable.
He said that illegal aliens aren’t “bad people,” but also “not
people that would easily assimilate into the United States into
our modern society.” They are, he continued, mostly rural,
poor, unskilled and illiterate. “They don’t speak English,”
Kelly said. “Obviously, that’s a big thing.”
Kelly violated the civic religion of treating every non-
American as better than an American — a potential
valedictorian, Medal of Honor winner and Nobel Prize
recipient. Naturally, he was called a “racist.”
So what was the point? You’re going to be called a “racist”
no matter what you say, so why not be honest: Illegals are
self-entitled law-breakers and thieves, stealing jobs and
government benefits meant for our own people.
Our cliche-driven media huffed and puffed about
Kelly’s presumed descent from immigrants.
CNN’s Don Lemon said, “But like most Americans,
Kelly comes from a family of immigrants, doesn’t
he?”
If you’d read “Adios, America!” Don, you’d know
this is PC nonsense. As late as 1990 — a quarter-
century into Teddy Kennedy’s plan to remake our
nation into a Third World hellhole — half of the
population traced its roots to the Americans of 1790. We’re a
real country, made up of the people who created it, much like
other countries.
There were Irish here at the time of our founding who
fought in the Revolutionary War. I’m related to one.
CNN’s John Berman said: “(I)f I remember my high school
American history — and I do — America in the midst of the
19th century and the beginning of the 20th century was built
on immigrants.”
It’s as if nothing happened in America until 1850 — no
Jamestown, no Declaration of Independence, no Constitution,
no creation of a brand-new civilization out of mud.
Long before America experienced its first immigrant wave
in the 19th century, this was already a wildly successful
country — rich, literate and free (with one glaring exception,
soon to be corrected in the only war ever fought to end
slavery). We’d won a war with Great Britain, conquered the
West, and invented electricity, refrigeration, suspension
bridges and a democratic republic.
Twitter lit up in response to Kelly’s inoffensive remarks,
with idiots pointing out that THE SAME THING WAS ONCE
SAID ABOUT THE IRISH!
Yes, and the people who said it were right. Let’s not
sugarcoat what wonderful immigrants the Irish were.
All immigrants have been a problem in their own way.
Italian immigrants brought us organized crime, something
America had never experienced before. Jewish immigrants
brought us radicals, communists and anarchists, setting off
bombs all over the place. Irish immigrants brought poverty
and shocking levels of crime — also William Brennan and
Teddy Kennedy, the two men who did more than any others to
wreck our country.
In the draft riots of 1863, New York City’s Irish exploded in
feral violence over the Emancipation Proclamation, fearful
that they would soon have to compete with freed blacks for
jobs.
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Steve and Cokie Roberts
still wrong
John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, recently told
NPR that undocumented immigrants are “not people that
would easily assimilate into the United States, into our
modern society. They’re overwhelmingly rural people. In
the countries they come from, fourth-, fifth-, sixth-grade
educations are kind of the norm. They don’t speak English;
obviously that’s a big thing... They don’t integrate well;
they don’t have skills.”
Kelly is repeating the same nativist nonsense that was
hurled at his own Irish and Italian ancestors generations
ago. They were told they could not integrate into America,
that they lacked the skills and intelligence to contribute
to their adopted country — and especially to Kelly’s
home city of Boston. Catholicism was actually illegal in
Massachusetts until 1780, and a convent was burned to the
ground there in 1834.
The haters were wrong about Kelly’s
forebears, and Kelly is wrong about
the latest wave of newcomers. If
anything, immigrants are more
productive than native-born
Americans, according to virtually
every economist who has ever
studied the topic.
One example: The Council
of Economic Advisors under
President Bush 43 concluded,
“Our review of economic research finds immigrants not
only help fuel the nation’s economic growth, but also have
an overall positive effect on the income of native-born
workers.”
Kelly’s statement reflects a monumental ignorance of
both economics and history, but he is only channeling
the woefully warped mindset of President Trump, whose
mother was born in Scotland and who has married two
women from Eastern Europe. Like his chief of staff, the
president embraces anti-immigrant attitudes rooted in
fabrication, not fact; emotion, not evidence.
Trump doesn’t care about facts, because his real
motivation is pure political opportunism: fanning the fears
of supporters who yearn for a more white, less diverse
country with fewer neighbors from what Trump famously
called “s—hole countries.”
When John Feeley, Trump’s ambassador to Panama,
quit in disgust, he wrote in the Washington Post: “I am
convinced that the president’s policies regarding migration
are not only foolish and delusional but also anti-American.”
He is right, but Trump’s anti-immigrant crusade has only
gotten more determined and more dangerous. Here are
four examples:
— Abandoning Dreamers. A recent Harvard-Harris
survey found that 76 percent of voters say that Dreamers,
about 700,000 undocumented young people brought here
as children, should be granted a path to citizenship.
But Trump has torpedoed every attempt at a legislative
compromise and no permanent solution is possible without
his assent.
— Encouraging family separation. On the day that
Melania Trump introduced a program to help children,
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a “zero-
tolerance” policy for anyone caught trying to enter the
country illegally. That means parents who are arrested
at the border and sent to prison would be separated from
their children, who are barred by law from incarceration.
The New York Times reports that at least 700 youngsters
have been taken from adults claiming to be their parents
since October. Michelle Brane of the Women’s Refugee
Commission told the Times: “The idea of punishing
parents who are trying to save their children’s lives... is
fundamentally cruel and un-American.”
— Ending protected status. About 300,000 immigrants
who fled natural disasters and civil strife in Haiti,
Honduras and El Salvador enjoy Temporary Protected
Status under a program enacted in 1990 that allows them
to stay in the U.S. Trump has canceled the program and
ordered the migrants expelled, even though many of them
have planted deep roots here and produced an estimated
273,000 American-born children.
The president rejected the advice of senior diplomats
who encouraged him to keep the program because, as the
Washington Post reports, “Money sent home by Central
Americans and Haitians living in the United States is an
engine for job creation that reduces the pressure to go
abroad.”
— Deporting workers. The Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agency has stepped up raids on businesses
that hire undocumented workers, making about 1,200
arrests since Oct. 1, which is up from about 300 during the
previous fiscal year. This comes at a moment when the
agricultural sector is plagued by a severe labor shortage.
The Wall Street Journal documented the crisis in the crab
industry on Maryland’s eastern shore and quoted a local
fisherman, Burl Lewis: “It trickles all the way down the
line. The Mexican labor creates jobs for Americans. It’s
creating my job.”
President Trump, with John Kelly’s backing, is
following an immigration policy that is not just “foolish
and delusional (and) anti-American.” It also directly
undermines the country’s economic future.
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