With all due respect to your family history in Boston - and your mother’s memory of NINA signs: As the posted article states, there is often little more than heresay from elder relatives to go on - and no documented evidence of NINA signs and newspaper adds being posted in any widespread fashion. The newspaper want adds appear to be minimal at best.

As the author states in the introduction: “The fact that the Irish vividley “remember” NINA signs is a curious historical puzzle.”

A curious historical puzzle becouse evidence that employers did not want Irish employees in a wholesale fashion is absent.

If NINA signs were as prevelant as we have been told - then it would stand to reason that the unemployment of Irish would have been rampant, much larger than work records report - and that was not the case.

If anyone has been able to find old newspaper documentation of NINA employment adds - then I would suggest you have found records that those who have access to vast archives and databases - historians, meuseum curators, archivists and the like cannot find. Those available have been found and their numbers are few.

http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/10855.html

I find it odd that no other Catholic European group - Polish, Italian or German ever reported seeing these no need to apply employment adds.

By 1840, the Irish made up 95% of the canal workers, and 95% of the NYC longshoremen by 1900. These numbers did not come about from remaining unemployed - and becouse folk from other ethnicities and cultures encountered prejudice and exclusion.

I have no doubt that the Irish, as well as ordinary folk from other ethnicities and cultures, encountered job prejudice and exclusion. But the Irish in fact found work in every facet of American industry - America, after all, did not produce a second Irish famine … not by a long shot.

I keep reading that these illegals “can’t afford” to come here legally, that the fees are too much to pay.
Now, when they can pay a coyote $5000. (or more) per family member to get them here illegally, I think the argument that it is not affordable is bogas. It comes down to greed and laziness. I don’t want to hear it anymore.

Uhhhh WHAT?!?!

The “jack-booted thugs” are coming from your side of the camp, dear moderator and others. (Yes, there is proof, and I’m not going to provide any more here).

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This don’t fly here, either put up or shut up. If you have proof, then share it so everyone can check for authenticity. Just make sure it isn’t the rhetoric from MWB or Nancy Lyall.
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The hysteria about “illegals” is coming from websites like these, from John Stirrup, and Corey Stewart, propaganda that does nothing but foster racism and hatred and violence. The proof is in the stats: PWC cares more about transportation than “illegals.”

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This isn’t hysteria, this is fed up with the federal Gov’t not doing something about the ILLEGAL aliens. It is fed up with those here ILLEGALLY getting benefits from those who pay taxes. While I will give you that some, SOME ILLEGAL aliens pay taxes, the majority do not. BTW, sales tax on goods doesn’t count. Property taxes DO!!!
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Of course people are hysterical. Of course they want lawyers. You would, too, if we decided to suddenly deport every person with an ax to grind against a single population whose crime is civil, not criminal.

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This isn’t an axe to grind, this is fed up with the Federal Gov’t not doing its job. People like you claim it is hysteria which causes it to be whipped into a frenzy by the MSM. This is just law abiding citizens that are tired of the ILLEGAL aliens suckling the hind teat and we have to provide the milk. I want you to notice I have not said ANYTHING about one specific group. I lump ALL ILLEGAL aliens into the same group no matter where they are from!!
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Next time you get a speeding ticket, think about being hauled down to the police station and interrogated. Think about being threatened to get thrown out and sent back to wherever it is your family came from originally.

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And the downside of this would be? If you are here ILLEGALLY, why do you deserve to stay? That is the problem, the ILLEGAL aliens feel like they are ENTITLED to stay here. How do you think those who came here LEGALLY feel about that? I can tell you, they do not appreciate it. Why should they have to wait for years to be approved, when some can walk across the border to get here?
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It has happened before, and it will happen more, now. It could be YOU.

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Uhh, no, it can’t be me because I am a naturally born citizen, so I do not have to worry about it. Why don’t you go back to your home country and do all of us a favor by getting off of the hind teat.

Come on, they’re just helping out their peepilz.

Bridget, believe me, those signs were not myths. I am originallyfrom Boston and am second generation Irish. One particular company who had those signs in Boston was the Lipton tea company according to my mother. Thomas Lipton was an Englishman who had no love for the irish. I am sure there were others.

I would bet a month’s salary that the realtor and broker were LATINOS.
Easy money!

We must all obey the Laws of The Land…This is the bottom line and those that have broken the law/laws must suffer the consequences. A special “Thank You” for the Board of Supervisor, to the PWC and Manassas City Police Force, To Help Save Manassas and to whoever has made an effort to rid this area of all “Illegal ALIENS”! THANK YOU…THANK YOU…THANK YOU!

P.S.
Lot of these illegals
are now moving to Sterling,
Arlington, Fairfax County and
now I’m anxious to see what the
2 clows (Connelly and Sasli (whatever his name is)
will now do!

This may be a dumb question, but: How does a lender run a mortgage credit check for a borrower who is living in the country illegally and working with with forged (or no) papers?

If anyone knows the address of this house, would you please share - I would love to ask the lender how that mortgage managed to slide through.

http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/no-irish.htm

“Hispanics are the nation’s largest and fastest growing minority group; at 46 million strong, they make up about 15% of the U.S. population. Their electoral clout continues to be undercut, however, by the fact that many are ineligible to vote, either because they are not citizens or not yet 18 years old. In 2008, Latinos will comprise about 9% of the eligible electorate nationwide. If past turnout trends persist, they will make up only about 6.5% of those who actually turn out to vote next November.”

http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=83

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-02-11-population-study_N.htm

“Even if immigration is limited, Hispanics’ share of the population will increase because they have higher birth rates than the overall population. That’s largely because Hispanic immigrants are younger than the nation’s aging baby boom population. By 2030, all 79 million boomers will be at least 65 and the elderly will grow faster than any other age group.”

http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=83

I don’t see any news articles or any TV or radio news items about the “other” un-documented. I wonder why? Have you seen homes trashed by say Bulgarians, Irish or Canadians. Have you seen “bunk houses” overcrowded with French, Japanese or Italians? The reason everything you read and everything you see is is all about Hispanics IS because the major problem IS Latinos!

Oh….and “aiding and abetting” is a FELONY.