Hang on Sloopy
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Did you ever watch the show Fung Fu Opie?No federal welfare back then. Like I said a million times the only immigrants who were treated very badly to the USA were European. Everyone who came post Hart Cellar Act have been treated with kid gloves including illegal immigrants.While Irish Americans are now proud to showcase their heritage, the Irish were not always celebrated by fellow Americans. Beginning in 1845, a devastating potato blight caused widespread hunger throughout Ireland. While approximately 1 million perished, another 2 million abandoned their land in the largest-single population movement of the 19th century. Most of the exiles—nearly a quarter of the Irish nation—came to the shores of the United States. Once they arrived, the Irish refugees were looked down upon as disease-ridden, unskilled and a drain on welfare budgets.
Sound familiar?