I think most of them from Europe, but some may have been NA and other races. My family tends to not ask for documents so we could be just about anything.

Undocumented aliens come in all shapes, sizes and colors - European, Asian, Central American, African. For some reason the media and GOP focus on one particular group.

Northern Ireland. They actually were trying to escape the "troubles" and it seems in hindsight that they should have been able to claim refugee status. but nobody was trying to deport them. They were white and spoke English. Over the years many quietly solved their immigration status or went back home when things stabilized.

I recently got a phone call from a young woman of that status who is now a grandmother, not young anymore, and legal. She was a nurse and went to work with a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, while still undocumented but able to obtain phony SS papers,
because she had experience with facial surgery from all the young people who were being shot in the face with rubber bullets back then in Belfast.

We have kept in touch over the years, so your tongue in cheek post kind of reminded me of this.

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Every single person I know who has done the DNA ancestry testing has come back mostly Irish. They all thought they were something else, but nope, Irish. At this point it's becoming rather amusing to me.

control they had.

Little-known true fact.

when a few of my cousins and I had the ancestry test done we came back less Irish than we expected. (Though I was a bit more because I have Irish ancestors on both sides of the family.) Our late grandmother's head would have exploded if she had seen our results.

We agreed it has more to do with how we were raised.

They immigrated to the U.S. in the 1800's. My grandfather on my father's side was from England.

so we"ve got lots of family and friends who came over in the 70s and 80s from the Republic as opposed to Northern Ireland, economic refugees really. A lot of them I personally knew went back when the Celtic Tiger was having its day, and quite a few came back when the bottom fell out. Woodlawn is full of them again.

And I have a LOT of illegal Polish friends here too.

approx50,000 undocumented Irish emigrants in the USA
Amnesty Chicago Celts for Immigration Reform
The bill has the support of Republicans and Democrats but the process has stalled in the House of Representatives, where Republican Leader John Boehner refuses to call a vote over concerns from his more right-wing members, who fear amnesty for millions of immigrants from Latin America.

The Irish have been key players in pushing for immigration reform and have taken the lead with other immigrant groups nationwide. In the face of federal inaction they have focused on changing state laws that affect immigrants.

The Chicago Celts recently took the lead in passing a law that provides undocumented immigrants in Illinois with a driver’s license, a move followed by eight other states like California and Massachusetts.


Polish undocs are another big group here

The Blonde Menace coming to our shores to take all our snow-related jobs.

... two from Ireland, and 2 from France.

My father has two birth certificates... one from Canada and one from the US. He always knew the US one was phony.

The French grandparents sneaked in from Canada, too. I searched the 1910 census, and they showed up... 6 girls and 1 boy in the family... with different last and first names.

I come from a whole line of people who didn't like the Man knowing much about them.

I guess they would be "Wetbacks", since they crossed the Detroit River.

back in the late 80s. The entire Commonwealth liked Southern California. There were and are numerous English and Irish pubs in this town at the beach. The King's Head, the Mucky Duck, McGintys, etc.