In a bizarre piece in the Post-Chronicle, Thomas E. Brewton likens the issue that immigration of Mexican illegals has become for the US today, with […]

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Once upon an unemployed time in Ireland, I ran out of Unemployment Benefit and was thus applying for means-based Unemployment Assistance. The Benefit that had […]

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Immigrants were much more likely than native-born Americans to start a business last year. So says a national survey by the Kansas City-based Ewing Marion […]

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The Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern seems to not be on the same wavelength as his President. Because although she sees no reason […]

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In the Irish world away from Kansas City:
   • The big sporting news is Munster’s European rugby glory, which in golf contributed to Ireland’s Darren Clarke […]

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The Irish President, Mary McAleese, speaking in Montana on her US visit, has said she believes some seeds of hope have been sown this week […]

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I need to read more on this because it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense just in the bare bones report in the Indo […]

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An AP article reports that hundreds of pro-immigrant advocates from all over the US are heading to Washington today, under the We Are America Alliance, […]

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Irish President Mary McAleese will visit the US from May 15-22. The head of state’s itinerary, approved by the Taoiseach and Government, will be concentrate […]

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Lest you think I’m picking on US Immigration Law and those who would formulate it, here’s a story today about an African asylum-seeker in Ireland […]

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Cinco de Mayo means scrawling something in the middle of your Irish tricolour and then taking it out and seeing if anybody notices the orange […]

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The Peace Process, Dublin celebrating its pseudo-millenium, Ireland beating England in Stuttgart, the making of Far and Away, the growth of I.T. in the US, […]

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The Independent Catholic reports today that Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor called for the UK government to consider an amnesty for illegal immigrants at a May Day […]

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As a way of marking this Day Without Immigrants here in Kansas City, I refused to socialize, to do business with, or even to speak […]

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On this Day Without Immigrants you might want to refresh on a few myths circulating about immigrants, according to the Chicago Sun:
1. Government officials are […]

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The Wichita Eagle in Kansas carries a report on the changing make-up of the Catholic Church in America, and worldwide.
At a time when priesthood ranks […]

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Roldy, the Kansas City-based English documentary film maker, throws in his tuppence worth on the current immigration debate in the US.
As a fairly recent immigrant […]

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The Socialist Worker is excited about the renewing of the traditions of May Day for the first time in over 60 years on US soil, […]

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Speaking of former Irish Taoisigh, and immigrants searching for a better way of life, if we pop east a couple of counties, the Marshall Democrat-News […]

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Paul A. Samuelson, US economist and author who was awarded the Nobel prize for economics in 1970, makes a couple of points for the wall-builders […]

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