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US VICE PRESIDENT Kamala Harris’s campaign for the presidency raised $310 million last month.
$200 million in donations came in the week following President Joe Biden’s endorsement of Harris as his replacement after he bowed out of the race, according to a statement from her campaign.
The total sum reflects donations directly to the Harris campaign, the Democratic National Committee and joint fundraising committees.
More than three million donors contributed, with two-thirds of the money coming from first-time donors and 60% from women.
Meanwhile, former president Donald Trump’s campaign and associated committees raised $138.7 million for July.
Harris’s campaign said it started August with $377 million cash in hand, while the equivalent figure announced by the Trump campaign stood at $327 million.
“The tremendous outpouring of support we’ve seen in just a short time makes clear the Harris coalition is mobilised, growing, and ready to put in the work to defeat Trump this November,” said Harris’s campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez in a statement.
“Our money is going to the work that wins close elections.”
Additional reporting from Press Association and AFP
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Now how in the name of all things sacred does one start a restaurant without any legal documentation?
Same as one runs an Irish bar in Boston without any.
That’s how big government works. Try to comply and it will crush you. But there are always cracks in the system where logic takes a hike. That is why, nearly 10 years after the 7/7 bombings, our neighbours still allow you to buy 500 litres of hydrogen peroxide unchallenged, but all the alarms go off if you try to get a second packet of paracetamol.
We need a border force tasked and set up specifically to track these illegals down and remove them from our country for entering illegally. They are law breakers and have no place in our society.
The Majority of them are here for social welfare and that’s it , send them home
The immigrants who come here with a required skill set ,work, pay tax and integrate…..They can stay
The article literally says that 81% of them are working. Since when is 19% a majority?
They took ar jobs!!
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/taoiseach-hopes-obama-will-help-irish-undocumented-1.2008917
Sure we just bring home our 50,000 in the US so.
No bother then, send them all home, and I hope you also ask our government to lobby against President Obamas recent executive order around illegals in the USA, and have all the illegal Irish sent home. Fair is fair, after all.
I suppose Dervil when people’s experience is at odds with an immigrants rights advocacy organisation. People know what they see, advocacy groups have an agenda and see what they want to see.
And why not Fergus? Are you suggesting that illegal immigration be given a free hand, whether in the US or Ireland?
Facts are facts, not perceptions.
They’tuk arrrrr jobs
Hi Colm interesting to see that the majority are here for social welfare. Where did you get that statistic from or is it just a generalization based on prejudice? The survey the story is based on suggests the opposite and if that extrapolates out you are wrong.
Why not, If the US govt advocated in their citizens interests, those illegals would have been turfed out years ago.
Source? De majority of dems is on here on dat dere welfare tourism. They say that about immigrants in every country, and it’s a bunch of crap.
Except Mike, that a recent report in the UK reported that non EU migration is a net cost to the exchequer. This despite the fact that the political motivation behind the report is to find the opposite.
Anyone quoting a 2004 South Park episode should get a red.
It’s been 10 years, lads. Move on.
‘They took our originality.’
How can they get social welfare if they are undocumented ?
@ Padraig they’re seeking social welfare, that is why they are here
The assumption that they are here to claim dole and other benefits is wide of the mark. The majority came here legally and lost their status because they were denied work permits. Many illegal migrants are exploited by Irish employers who know they cannot simply leave their jobs and claim the dole. They are among the most hard working people in this state and they are shown little mercy.
Ah stop – Ass-et has proof the only Irish immigrants work hard (he has seen it and everything! ), so don’t be claiming otherwise
Time to start shipping them out, we can’t look like easy access to freeloading…..
Yeah, keep freeloading Irish! Irish freeloading for irish freeloaders only!
Quit the freeloading system, too much freeloading all over
Deyyyy tukkk urrr rrriginaliteeee!
No they didn’t tuk arrrr jobs, but, they undermined wages here. Irish Ferries is a prime example where the Irish workforce was laid off in favour of a new globalised workforce that would work longer hours for cheaper pay. The Irish unions are a disgrace, they have stood back and watched the destruction of over a century of hard earned labour reforms, the emigration of skilled workers and the immigration of unskilled workers is going to lead us to what type of economy exactly?
Your are conveniently forgetting the huge numbers of skilled immigrants coming over to Ireland to work in jobs that the Irish workforce don’t have the numbers or skills for. I don’t reckon many of the UK immigrants (approx 120k) are unskilled for example.
The world has moved on, work forces are mobile, time you caught up.
*you’re
durka duuur
Dey tuuk orrrrrr jibs
Ah sure it means nothing to be Irish anymore..give them a big ceremony and a passport and thank Mary Robinson
81% have jobs, how do they get jobs without a PPS no., how do they get a PPS no. without documents? Seems to me like Revenue need to get their act together.
So it’s not the people employing them that are at fault, it’s revenues fault for not catching them?
That’s the most Irish thing that will be written today.
Padriag, wouldn’t it be great if all criminals stopped what they are doing then the police wouldn’t have to catch them.
The people who employ these “illegals” are criminals, they do it for personal gain. They are not going to stop so it’s up to us to stop them.
When I lived in the UK, Revenue had a dedicated branch to ferret out these people, I assume Revenue here would have the same, so get your act together is what I say. The illegals generally operate in thebcatering or clothing industries so they’ve a good idea where to start.
This is basically a press release from a leftist SJW NGO.
Lets see what the govt is meant to do regarding illegal migrants here in their own words. *despite the disgrafeful lobbying of the US to undermine their own borders by Enda & co*
” · Removal of illegal immigrants. The removal from the State of persons with no legal right to be here is a necessary feature of the enforcement of immigration legislation with the purpose of upholding the integrity of the immigration system. Ireland is no different to other countries who also remove individuals who have no lawful right to remain within their territory.”
26,000 equates to about 12,000000 per head of population if you compare it to America,like i said before the immigration in this countries a joke,such a small country and so many illegals,then we have the do gooders fighting for asylum seekers also, the country won`t have a penny left if all the do gooders get there way.
Looks like the money would be better spent on education..
I’m just worried about their children, many were born here and Ireland is everything they know, they are innocent and they are caught off in this situation caused by their parents.
I have a friend of mine living Illegally in Florida, by choice and not by need, his son is now 7 and he was born thee, he is american and that’s all he knows, but it provides an unstable environment for him because his father uncertainty of getting deported or getting sick.
BTW if the Shinners ever get to call the shots on issues like this their policies are to let them stay and give them citizenship,check out the shinners policies.
Who can we vote for???
We really need a party like UKIP !!!
The parties we have to choose from are a joke
Ukip are a joke. A load of posh toffs, educated in private schools, former investment bankers, stirring up hatred so they can get into power – then cut taxes on big business, privatise healthcare, and generally take care of their rich buddies.
I will be running on an anti mass immigration platform in the next GE.
You have my vote
i`ll give you my vote,but we really do need a ukip type party to stand up for the indigenous Irish,The do gooders will run us out of our own country.
I think Abdullah will get a visit from Revenue and the Garda, the story is out there, what else do they need?
160 thousand undocumented made their way by sea into Europe so far this year. They all hang around in Calais, waiting to be shipped into the UK. Seems to be the favourite destination. Its a big smuggling racket.
I wouldn’t say that they hang around Calais, places like Germany and Sweden take in tens of thousands every year.
Perhaps it’s a reason why we should support the economic and political development of Africa and the Middle East? We’re happy to take the oil of these countries, knowing they’re corrupt and the profits are spent on luxury cars and shopping in Paris and London.
If we (in the west) hadn’t propped up Gadaffi or the dictators in Syria for so long, perhaps the people would not now have to flee for their lives?
Just saw it on a channel 4 documentary. There were thousands of them there. Said that the numbers have quadrupled in the last 5 years. Of course a lot of them do go to other countries, this documentary was focusing on the ones trying for the UK and the smugglers behind them. Also oil companies are not exclusive to outside Europe, we have it going on here too. Also they are mainly African not Arabs.
I wouldn’t be instinctively opposed to regularising the situation of those who have been in the state for 5+ years, have been working, no criminal record, can prove all this, pay all back taxes due and a fine.
That does raise the question – what do you do in another 10/15 years?
It’s been 10 years. Let them stay.
So would you ignore the crime and let all law breakers off after 10 years ?
Yeah. Coming to a country undocumented ten years ago is hardly a serious crime.
Some crimes can be forgiven over time and people deserve a fresh start.
I thought all you had to do was live in Ireland 4 or 5 years and then you could get citizenship. Maybe that’s for documented workers.
Migrants travel to ireland to get away from war torn countries and neglectful governments to try and start a new life,serious lads don’t be racist and give them a chance of a new beginning,just like many a son and daughter of Ireland has have to do in the past to get away from here as we have had no work for them, if it’s ok for us to do it why isn’t it ok for other countries.
You obviously know no migrants. Come from war torn countries lol Out with them. And yes I think undocumented Irish should be kicked back to Ireland.
@fove. You were obviously never in the north in the bad old days!
Man utd – that’s what we have an immigration process for. One guy I heard on the radio this morning was from the Philippines – a country with its problems, no question, but they also have the likes paypal operating there.
A report from MRCI (murcky) – then it’s bound to be impartial, unbiased and not crafted to emotionally blackmail the indigenous natives.
I knew you’d have to show up here! The guy with the un-Irish “Irish” name! Remember that book by the Christian Brothers that you used as a reference yesterday to back up your claim that your name was correct? Well, I checked it out last night and it actually backs up exactly what I was saying, and not what you were saying. The only exceptions to the caol le caol, leathan le leathan rule being compound words as I indeed mentioned (your name is not a compound word and is, instead, an adjective). As for John O’Brien, well he is largely discredited in the world of academia, especially seeing as how he took a substantial amount of his work for his dictionary, not from Irish sources, but from a Welshman! Oh, and I see you’re a contributor to the anti-Semitic and White Supremacist Vanguard News Network! Interesting, that!
By the way, what exactly constitutes an indigenous native? Do you have to be 100% pure blooded Gael? What if you have a bit of Viking blood? Or Norman? What about Flemish or English or French? How far back do you go? And what ethnicities are not allowed to be counted as Irish?
See a dentist, Brian. You’re a shambles.
Nice one, Jay! Tell me, how long did it take your childish brain to come up with that one? Let me guess. If someone has something to say and you don’t agree with it, you think the best way to counter their argument is to comment on their appearance (even if it is simply poor photography in poor light conditions). That sort of shows an inability to make a cogent, relative and intelligent argument. Do you suffer from any mental illness, by any chance, that prevents you from doing so? You sound like the type of person who was bullied throughout their childhood and now you like to think you can bully anyone and everyone around you. Oh, and I see from your Twitter feed that you’re also a racist. The sooner you lot die off the better (and preferably before you spawn any offspring). We have enough inbreeding leading to the likes of yourself in this country! The ironic thing about you and Aireáinnach’s position is that lack of immigration means a lack of biological diversity within humans, thus facilitating an increase in the prevalence of genetic diseases (particularly haemochromatosis, cystic fibrosis and Crohn’s disease among others).
Brian
To reply to your false accusations:
Losing the argument about Irish language has really got to you – trolling, litany of smears and false accusations, following like a lost puppy and now simply lying as well as going off topic here. No, the GGBC book doesn’t back you up at all. In case your English comprehension is as deficient as your general understanding of how languages work, if you read the GGBC properly – they are speaking in generalities about when the ‘caol le caol’ rule is/isn’t observed, they merely gave examples which were compound words. For example they did not mention anything about diphthongs or tripthongs, which are another instance that do not always conform to the rule. For example, Gaeltacht breaks the rule as do many other “ae” words. The ‘ae’ in Gaeltacht is seen as broad. GGBC did not refer to “óspidéal, -éil, pl. id., m., a hospital (this form is used in M. and Con.)”, Dineen. Óspidéal apparently can be spelled with an óispidéal, but in certain dialects it is not, they did not highlight these breaks of the rule, because they were talking in general terms, not specifically about compound words.They even spelled it out how the rule should be applied in practice, leaving room for whether it should be observed at all.
“The ear and not the eye must be the guide in the observance of the rule “caol le caol agus leathan le leathan.” The eye would mean it is always observed – by mere visual inspection then substituting in the correct vowel in the appropriate place, but the fact they mention one should be guided by ear means, the rule is not always observed and that is applied generally.
You completely ignore many points and prefer to divert attention with name-calling to make up for that inadequacy. “eái” is a tripthong in the word Aireáinnach – it breaks the rule, a rule I already pointed out to you, is itself up for debate and not just by O’Brien.
I gave you a sample of the research not all of it. Here is another who has a problem with the rule:
“This delicacy of the organs of speech, though partly known elsewhere, has not been carried out to the same extent by any of the Indo- European languages, nor was it fully developed in the older shape of the Celtic itself, as Welsh does not partake of it. This rule has caused a rather cumbrous orthography, as a large number of vowels are now written for the mere purpose of insuring either the broad or slender pronunciation of the consonants, and these vowels which in reality have no sound, are distinguished in no way from those vowels which are sounded. This creates a difficulty in reading correctly Irish words. If every one of these silent vowels were marked, for instance, with a point, it would be of great assistance to the reader. Such an innovation, however, we cannot undertake to introduce. ”
A Grammar of the modern Irish Language, Wright, Trinity College Dublin, 1860.
http://phouka.com/gaelic/book10/p01-01.htm
You seem to try to fabricate certain aspects of this topic as problematic when they have nothing to do with anything I talked about. For example, I never made any mention of Aireáinnach being a compound word, nor tried to assert it is, either you really do not have any understanding of what I talked to you about previously, or this is just resort to lying. The word is neither a compound word nor an adjective, like I said, you do not know what the word means, therefore you are in no position to judge. The argument for it’s etymology is based on what the word is and meant to express, not what you incorrectly think it is. The etymology and orthography as proven, apart from possibly one item, previously raised from the beginning by myself are applicable to what the word is, not what you decide you want it to be. Your other claims (amongst other unsubstantiated smears), that no effort was made in the word-formation, or that due care and research was not applied in the formation of “Aireáinnach” are clearly incorrect, such effort was made and you simply cannot substantiate such claims, which seems to be your habit, like your next false accusation below.
I am not a contributor to any site called Vanguard news network, obviously one of my comments is reposted there by one of their members, either you are again deliberately attempting to deflect attention from your own shortcomings / flawed arguments or simply a total dope.
Brian
It is a fact the Irish are among the most homogenous nation in Europe, other historic additions are from the very closely related, ancestrally and culturally similar, western Europeans. Any historic ancestral additions to us from them are merely additions from a branch of the same/extremely similar genetic family tree we already came from millenia ago, which is to say, nothing drastically different or new to our ancestral mix. In any event, their influx was negligable in demographic terms relative to the indigenous population.
I am wondering when you will ask such questions to the Chinese, Tibetans, Nigerians, Amazonians, Inuit, Zulus, Palestinians, Zimbabweans, or do you only express your race hatred toward western European ethnicities?
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gaelic-surnames-prove-that-were-a-race-apart-26122593.html
http://www.insideireland.com/sample19.htm
Round them up “Simple” Problem solved…
I’ll always admire these people that take on such risky journeys to make a better life for themselves .. Should I be picked on for thinking this way ? I don’t think so !! I now know how Denise feels when she gets all those responses ..It can be really overwhelming ..!!
Anyway ..I would like to take this opportunity to welcome the ‘new Irish’ and especially those that contribute to our society #soproudofthem
Troll alert
If you come here leaving your family and friends, learn a language, get a job, run a business….you’ve probably done more to get ahead than all the online whingers on thejournal.ie combined. Good for you.
Tom
Importing productivity or any of the above is an unsustainable policy which feeds into an atomised, exploitable, throw-away society. If we want the kind of people you suggest, then we should have the kind of state that crafts and inculcates that into the people and culture already here, instead of importing cheap exploitable labour and competition cattle for the business/political classes.
20% are living in their new home over 10 years with their now Irish born children .. And the killer punch is ….. they’re working .. oh dear . Just putting the facts aside for a moment ..You cannot blame them if a system can be abused .
Are you a troll?
Yes you can not blame a bank robber because the bank was easy to rob.
living in their new home??? show me an illegal migrant thats bought a new home on wages below €8 or even above at €9 cash in hand!!! theres over 70 different nationalities on the housing lists here, it’s no wonder we’ve got a serious shortage of place to even rent! it’s a f**** disgrace thats what.
The Irish Government are ahead of the US here. On 1st October this year they introduced a Reactivation Employment Permit Scheme in order to regularise persons who entered the labour market legally in the past but who have fallen out of the system through no fault of their own and are now undocumented. Full details of the Scheme can be found on the Department of Jobs, Enerpise and Innovation website at http://www.djei.ie.
another 800 so called new Irish created by the horrible blue shirts in cork last monday,80. odd thousand now,what are the blue shirts trying to do to Ireland ??
Jay Mc Gregor f*ck off to England and go vote for UKIP.. spa
No.
I say let them all in . process the applications correctly.. they’ve a lot to contribute to this country. Indians, Venezuelans,Chinese, Vietnamese, Croatians, Nigerians , Malawians ,Indonesians , Saudi Arabians , Brazilians, Moroccans , Latvians, Romanians, Canadians, Australians,Albanians, Danes,Serbs,Russians . sure we’re all humans at the end of the day aren’t we……….
Illegals are not welcome.
what is an ‘illegal’ human being ?
Someone who enters or remains in another jurisdiction that their own without permission.
But you knew that already…
heh yea, they’ve a lot to take as well, take what we haven’t got for our own because because… the domino effect not just jobs, it goes wide.
If they have jobs, are contributing and have been here peacefully for a long time, why not let them stay and pay taxes? They’re contributing more to Ireland than any of the undocumented Irish in America.
Because they are tax dodging criminals. Jail, fine them for back taxes owed and then deport them. No amnesty for criminals.
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