It’s not just the issue of immigration that is threatening the integrity, the future and the connectedness of the Irish nation, but the role of state and voluntary bodies in making Ireland unrecognisably and irreversibly alien. The recent report from the Economic Research and Social Institute, with its tendentious victim-terminology to describe immigrants was bad enough; but then when viewed through the victim-focussed lens provided by The Irish Times, the average unanalytical reader would think that immigrants to Ireland were being treated like the Apache or the Commanche by the US Cavalry.
A clue to reality here: the Apache and the Commanche were the natives, and the Cavalry were immigrants.
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