Irish, undocumented and insecure in their future in Trump America

They lead companies. They tend to be bars. Pay taxes. While in the US illegally, they spared the supervision of that label in a large place. But still live in fear. Today, thousands of undocumented Irish of immigrants in America.

Recent assessments of the Irish government suggest that there are as many as 10,000 undocumented Irish Irish in the United States. Many in the shadows lived for decades, waiting for the path to citizenship that may never come. And with a new president who vowed to carry out The largest deportation operation In American history, anxiety have increased.

“It is definitely concern, definitely concern,” Mary, undocumented Irish immigrant in New England, told the news of the CBS. “I heard about different people, you know, caught withdrawing undocumented people – some can be criminals, but some of them may not be, and it’s just a situation to be in the wrong time.”

Mary, and others are interviewed for this story, asked their full names not to be used to maintain their anonymity.

Ireland Privilege?

While Mary is afraid for his own status, he says, says the colors community carry the Grunt President Trump Immigration movement While she can fly below the radar.

“There are some very diligent people who have set enterprises and employ people and at once, you know, they are On the plane somewhereTheir lives have changed, and it is very difficult, “she said.” I absolutely feel for people. ”

Aisling, undocumented Ireland Waitress in Chicago, who lived in America for eight years, says that while she is worried, can become the goal of “collateral damage” for administration, Ice raids In his neighborhood, they target mostly Latin communities – something that convicted as racist.

“If the LED entered my job, I must only fit with a bunch, but the fear is pulling back or just in the wrong place at the wrong time,” she said she said news about CBS.

The CBS news showed the Homeland Safety Department for the comment on how LED conducts its executive operations and whether characterization is especially directed to Latin American and Latin Communities Fair.

Mick, which was 2000. arrived in New York from Ireland, said the public treatment of Irish people in the United States in many ways of the opposite of which other nationalities are faced. “I used to consider him an unjust hearing to tell the locals about those immigrants coming here,” he explained. “I should remind them, say,” Hey, guys, I’m an immigrant. “” Attitude, he said, was, but you’re different. ”

Mick was undocumented for the first few years he lived in the US, but he is now a citizen and describes himself as a proud New Yorker. He said there was “much spreads fear” among immigrant communities now during the second Adutian administration.

“There are tips on the network … that people report companies if they doubt that they are undocumented people who work. It’s awful. It’s definitely a feeling, which is new,” he said.

Ciara, who arrived in the US before President Trump took over the function, said that it was on J-1 Visa, which enables educational and cultural exchange, but work on the side illegally. “There is a little security network” for Irish people in the hospitality, she said.

“It’s definitely concern, but I think I’m definitely very privileged. I’m a white girl with a third level (college) education, so I think I’m in a much safer position for many other people who are undocumented.”

But immigration lawyers told CBS news that would be naive that Irish undocumented people believe that they can be immune to deportation.

“When Irish people come, they come to what we call a Visa renunciation program, so they can come to the United States, and they cannot come to Consulate in Dublin,” John Foley, for the immigration lawyer in Boston.

“Part of the renunciation means that they give up all the rights to court processing, which means they can be removed or deported from the United States without crossing the judge,” Foley said. “If you’re an ice officer and you have to get 40 people on Thursday, you’re in 27 on Thursday, you don’t care where the last 13th” comes. “

Contribution to the US economy

Tom, ownership owners and a legal resident of New York in Manhattan, told the news of the CBS to hire many undocumented Irish workers as well as undocumented staff of the central and south american and south. He says he can’t work as a business owner without them.

“I would say that 90% of restaurants and small businesses in this city imprisoned if you have taken (undocumented) immigrants,” Tom said. “People who want to do these jobs are people who don’t have clear legal trails in America.”

Estimate From the American Immigration Council, it has shown that immigrants in America have contributed to 75.6 billion dollars of taxes in 2022. years. It included $ 29 billion in state and local tax and $ 46.6 billion in federal taxes.

Aisling, in Chicago, says her colleagues are in a bar where it works mostly undocumented.

“The job rely on it, basically … People who are applying here for work, not Americans are entering and not reporting. They don’t want to do these jobs,” she said.

Legal roads for undocumented immigrants are limited

Mary, in the new England arrived in the US in 1999. years. She lived in America for 26 years, she became the owner of the property and are self-employed. The last 14 years tries to receive sponsorship for legal residence through a legal petition from the brother, which is an American citizen. This process is still waiting without end in sight.

“No really possibility,” she said. “There is no path for me at the moment.”

It is a question facing many undocumented immigrants working in the United States today, where several Legal roads exist and where they do, massive backlogs And bureaucracy causes debt processing delays.

A 2023 Policy Analysis From a conservative research tank, Cato Institute said that less than 1% of people who want to move permanently in the United States can do so legally.

One young Ireland woman who has crossed a visa in New York and is now working at the Manhattan bar, said for CBS News that he just wants to work, but the avenues were limited.

“I’d rather be lying down and have legal status, but it was hard to get a visa, and I feel like it’s now 10 times harder to even consider trying to get a visa,” she said.

Mick, who eventually gained citizenship, said he would support amnesty for people without criminal convictions living illegally in the US and contribute to communities.

“A lot of people who come to our countries and our coast come here because of the policies we have allowed to happen and used our decades,” he said. “I feel like we should take care of people to help the most. And I never met any evil, nasty people who Eat dogs and cats Who came here legally or illegally. ”

Oval Office meeting, with quota views

When the President Trump meets Ireland Prime Minister Michenál Martin on Wednesday, he will continue the annual office in which the White House hosts Irish Taoiseach, or Heads, to celebrate the celebration of St. Patrick.

Before that event, the White House shares famous praise about the historical contribution to Emerald Isle in the United States.

“Irish Americans played a key role in our large American story – bravely transcends the adversity and the difficulties of our spirit and strengthen our way of life,” Our way of life said, “said Mr. Trump in statement He published the White House as the president declared March as the Irish-American heritage month.

But in the midst of handrails and shishders, some sharp differences can occur in this matter.

While Mr. Trump promised to remove millions of undocumented immigrants, the Ireland Government has been lobby for years to a comprehensive immigration reform that would offer the legitimacy of undocumented Irish workers in the USA