Enough with the immigrant hatred

I wish people would stop sending my mother hate-filled email "forwards" about immigrants to the U.S. What kills me is that most of these tracts come from her Irish acquaintances who apparently have no appreciation for what our own people went through as newcomers to America.

Laboring immigrants come to America because they are poor and because there is work. It's human nature. Sick of living in a hovel? Sick of watching your children die of avoidable disease? Pick up and go. Do what ya gotta d...