In scores of U.S. cities this week, Americans of Irish descent will celebrate St. Patrick's Day by donning green hats, marching through the streets shouting "Erin go bragh!" and proudly proclaiming their Irishness to anyone who will listen. Yet as many as 100,000 natives of Ireland, newly arrived in the U.S., will hesitate to join the parades. They live in the fearful shadow world of the illegal alien.
Like their more numerous Hispanic and Asian counterparts, the undocumented "new Irish" switch jobs often, worry about the costs of sickness without Medicaid, and can do little but gnash their teeth when family...
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