***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[RustyShackleford]

https://trofire.com/2017/03/15/amaz...-w-v-trump-voters-cheer-universal-healthcare/
For the Democrats, the 2018 elections better be like playing the game on easy with cheat codes.

nah the maps not favorable, economy is still solid.



It will still be a hell of a challenge to unseat the republicans.

Yes the Senate map is bad and the House is gerrymandered to hell, but the Dems can eat elsewhere, especially at the state level. And for the sake of going access, this is big for 2020.

You are putting too much weight on the economy. Trump's popularity (which is tied to the economy, but not strictly) will be a bigger factor.

The last three massive midterm term waves for each president was not about the economy. You can argue that it created apathy under Obama, but the Tea Party was really about economics.

 

[dragicon]

She gave Price that work

This guy really is a dip ****

She is so angry... I don't know how those people in the audience can keep their composure when that bum has his smug little smile going as they ask him questions they know he won't answer.

 

[IATT]

On top of regularly taking a crap on the NYT.. was this even reported by them???

 

[IATT]

 

[jape]

 

[(*Fin)]

Just read Agent Orange wants to also eliminate the $3 billion community development block grants, which funds programs like meals on wheels. This mofo and all his supporters can go suck a loaded revolver with a loose trigger. A lot of poor families with children, disabled, and elderly folks utilize these programs to eat. **** is disgusting.

 

[IATT]

 

[moe fab]

I think I'm back at the point I don't care anymore. Burn it all down. Let it burn like Ush girl. Let it get so bad, people either French Revolution all these Republicans, Wall St guys, n wealthy elite or just die off n then won't have to worry about it anymore; in whatever afterlife they believe in.

/rant

 

[whywesteppin]

I think I'm back at the point I don't care anymore. Burn it all down. Let it burn like Ush girl. Let it get so bad, people either French Revolution all these Republicans, Wall St guys, n wealthy elite or just die off n then won't have to worry about it anymore; in whatever afterlife they believe in.

/rant

yup. there are two awful possible outcomes we face: nuclear war, or things don't completely fall apart and somehow trump and republicans sail through this unchecked.

what we need is total annihilation of the way of thinking endorsed by trump and his people. we need people jailed or whatever the second amendment allows. we need gerrymandering reversed. we need white Americans to either disavow racism and join us or we need natural selection and lack of health care and opioid addiction to do its thing.

 

[whywesteppin]

wins today: Dutch choose the right guy, trump travel ban blocked, Republicans coming out against trump's wiretapping lies, and Snoop Dogg tries to end up on the right side of history.



FBI on the Russia hack of Yahoo: "the FBI has a long reach and a long memory."

thinly veiled warning over the election hacks?

 

[IATT]

 

[whywesteppin]

look at spicey getting blown away!

he's lovable like George Bush. i hope he's the designated survivor. his first act as president should be to ban dippin dots.

do you think he'll be the Easter Bunny again this year?

edit: packed house at the trump rally:

real life lyanna mormont:

 

[whywesteppin]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amph...0a0094-09a1-11e7-a15f-a58d4a988474_story.html

President Trump on Thursday will unveil a budget plan that calls for a sharp increase in military spending and stark cuts across much of the rest of the government including the elimination of dozens of long-standing federal programs that assist the poor, fund scientific research and aid America’s allies abroad.

Trump’s first budget proposal, which he named “America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again,” would increase defense spending by $54 billion and then offset that by stripping money from more than 18 other agencies. Some would be hit particularly hard, with reductions of more than 20 percent at the Agriculture, Labor and State departments and of more than 30 percent at the Environmental Protection Agency.

It would also propose eliminating future federal support for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Within EPA alone, 50 programs and 3,200 positions would be eliminated.

man, **** this guy.

 

[Nike Jordan]

 

[jking0821]

Just read through some of the "A Budget Blueprint to make america great again". Personal interest since i am a NASA employee

Cutting earth science satellites and all the EPO work

Also on the chopping block: the entire NASA Education office, which runs camps and enrichment programs, provides internships and scholarships for young scientists, and oversees efforts to support women and underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, fields.

People shook up already today. PACE a big in-house mission at Goddard could leave hundreds of people without a job

 

[Belgium]

Geert Wilders' effort to become the biggest party in the Netherlands has failed
Will expand on the election results in a bit

 

[AZwildcats]

Hopefully Le Pen gets a similar result

 

[dathbgboy]

As much as we want **** to hit the fan and Republicans lose support, they won't. They will pawn their actions on Democrats or set up a crap load of strawmen to attack to deflect from their screwups and people in rural areas will eat it up because u know, the rich white guys couldn't really be lying to them.

Thing I don't like is, where are the Democrats at, most all but disappeared at a time where their presence and actual strength is needed. Guess they're waiting for Rand Paul to say something again. .

If there was anytime for a 3rd party to make themselves known, now is def the time.

 

[Armada]

Geert Wilders' effort to become the biggest party in the Netherlands has failed

Will expand on the election results in a bit

 

[gazebogreens]

I am actually kind of glad when AG Sessions equates pot to heroin. It should be message to pot heads that while states have become more lenient when it comes to your drugs of choice, you are still violating Federal law just as much as heroin and opioid users.

The war on drugs must be opposed across the board and pot heads need to stop throwing other illegal drug users under the bus.

As I have said before THE WAR ON DRUGS IS NOT ABOUT DRUGS. It is all about social control and drug warriors do not care about the clinical difference between cannabis and opium and its derivatives whatsoever.

I STRONGLY disagree with this statement.

Yes, "pot heads" are still violating federal law. Federal law that should've NEVER been put into place because as you said, "the war on drugs is not about drugs", it's about incriminating innocent people. 99% of "pot heads" are innocent people who have done no more than indulge in the most natural, harmless plant which is considered a drug. States rights and separation of federal vs state powers needs to be respected now more than ever. Unless you want a dictatorship under the 45th.

By your rationale, "the war on drugs must be opposed across the board and ALCOHOL USERS, and pot heads need to stop throwing other illegal drug uses under the bus." See what I did there by adding alcohol? Does it seem like a silly statement to you now maybe? All drugs are not equally harmful. See how silly that sounds? And alcohol is way more harmful than cannabis. There's no stigma for alcohol because the infrastructure for it exists (so no cartel or other illegal activity surrounding it), it's not a "black" drug, BUT remember what happened during prohibition?

What do you mean by social control and who are these "drug warriors" you speak of? Keeping cannabis illegal just gives law enforcement another reason to lock up an innocent person and generate money through prison or police. Meanwhile, in legal states the infrastructure and social networks are being built to open businesses legally, responsibly, and most importantly pax taxes on earnings. Why would you want to stifle that progress? Cannabis entrepreneurs are ready to pay millions in taxes, you say stop that and lock them up with the heroin users? C'mon son.

You say you are glad Sessions equates pot to heroin but your explanation lacks reason. I suggest you look into the background of cannabis in this country and the progress that his been made this decade. The fact you are referring to cannabis users as "pot heads" really tells me all I need to know about your stance on this issue, though.

 

[gry60]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-presidential-budget-2018-proposal/

AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT

The Trump administration is seeking to cut 21 percent of the Agriculture Department's discretionary spending budget, though it hasn't detailed what precisely will be cut. The vulnerable programs include rural development and research grants but exclude SNAP (food stamps) and crop subsidies. The USDA will also reduce staff by an unspecified amount at various service center agencies around the country.

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Eliminates the $200 million McGovern-Dole International Food for Education program

Eliminates the $500 million Water and Wastewater loan and grant program

Cuts Women, Infants and Children nutrition assistance from $6.4 billion to $6.2 billion

Unspecified staff reductions at USDA service center agencies around the country

Cuts $95 million from the Rural Business and Cooperative Service

COMMERCE DEPARTMENT

As part of a 16 percent reduction to the Department of Commerce’s budget, the Trump administration is proposing sharp cuts to climate-change and ocean research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Cuts $250 million from coastal research programs that ready communities for rising seas and worsening storms

Eliminates the popular $73 million Sea Grant program, which operates in conjunction with universities in 33 states

Eliminates the Economic Development Administration, which gives out grants in struggling communities

Cuts federal funding to the Manufacturing Extension Partnership

DEFENSE DEPARTMENT

Under the Trump administration budget, the Defense Department would get a 9 percent increase in discretionary funding — but only about 3 percent more than what it spent last year. President Trump has cast it as a historic increase in defense spending, but critics say it is actually more of an incremental boost and much smaller than what he promised on the campaign trail.

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Increases the size of the Army and Marine Corps

Increases the number of ships in the Navy's fleet

Buys F-35 Joint Strike Fighters more rapidly

Increases spending to keep Air Force combat planes ready to fly

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

The Education Department faces a 14 percent cut under the Trump administration budget, which would downsize or eliminate a raft of grants, including for teacher training, afterschool programs, and aid to low-income and minority college students. The cuts would be coupled with a historic investment — $1.4 billion — in charter schools, private schools and other school-choice initiatives.

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Cuts $3.7 billion in grants for teacher training, after-school and summer programs, and aid programs to first-generation and low-income students

"Significantly" reduces federal work-study aid to college students

Increases charter school funding by $168 million

Creates new private-school choice program with $250 million

Spends $1 billion to encourage districts to allow federal dollars meant for low-income students to follow those students to the public school of their choice

ENERGY DEPARTMENT

The Trump budget proposal, which cuts the Energy Department's budget by 6 percent, would boost spending on managing the nation’s nuclear stockpile and revive the controversial Yucca Mountain storage facility for nuclear power plant waste. It would slash spending on a host of science and climate areas.

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Cuts $900 million from the Office of Science

Eliminates the Energy Star, Weatherization Assistance Program, ARPA-E, Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program, and Title 17 loan guarantees

Gives the Yucca Mountain project $120 million to restart licensing operations

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

The Trump administration proposed an 18 percent decrease for HHS, one of the largest and most sprawling departments within the government. That sum excludes funding for the insurance provided by Medicare and Medicaid, two vast entitlement programs for older and lower-income Americans. In a rare move, those programs were omitted from the brief budget description the Trump administration has released.

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Read full story on the CDC
Decreases funding for the National Institutes of Health and certain programs to train health professionals

Increases funding for efforts to prevent and treat opioid addictions

National Institutes of Health (part of HHS)

The 19 percent cut would affect the billions of dollars NIH gives out to researchers around the globe, as well as studies at its sprawling Bethesda, Md., campus.

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Eliminates the Fogarty International Center, which builds partnerships between U.S. and foreign health research institutions

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

The proposal would increase funding to DHS by 7 percent. This money primarily goes toward big boosts in spending on border and immigration enforcement — for a border wall, for 500 new Border Patrol agents, and 1,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

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Cuts $667 million from grant programs to state and local agencies, including pre-disaster mitigation grants and counterterrorism funding

Raises the TSA Passenger Security Fee, currently $5.60 for a passenger flying out of a U.S. airport

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

The 13 percent cut in funding for HUD will put tremendous strain on housing authorities across the country, which manage public housing and rely heavily on federal funding.

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Eliminates the $3 billion Community Development Block Grant program

Eliminates the HOME Investment Partnerships Program, the Choice Neighborhoods program and the Self-help Homeownership Opportunity Program

Eliminates the $35 million of funding for Section 4 Community Development and Affordable Housing

Raises funding for lead-hazard reduction from $110 million to $130 million

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT

Under the Trump administration proposal, the Interior Department faces a 12 percent cut. That could strain everyday maintenance of national parks and historic sites, as well as enforcement of activity such as illegal wildlife trafficking at the nation's borders.

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Eliminates funding for the 49 National Historic Sites

Decreases funding for land acquisition by $120 million

Wildfire suppression funding is likely to see a marginal increase

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

The budget proposal boosts the DOJ’s tough-on-crime and anti-immigration efforts — putting money toward targeting criminal organizations and drug traffickers, and hiring immigration judges, border enforcement prosecutors and additional deputy U.S. marshals. The DOJ budget’s overall 4 percent decrease appears to come from a reduction in federal prison construction because of a reduced prison population and reducing spending on mostly unnamed “outdated” programs.

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Cuts funding to reimburse state and local governments for costs of incarcerating certain undocumented immigrants

Cuts almost $1 billion of funding for federal prison construction

Adds $249 million of funding for the FBI, largely aimed at counterterrorism, cyber threats, more timely firearms purchase background checks and more crime data

Adds $80 million to adjudicate immigrant removal proceedings and hire more attorneys

LABOR DEPARTMENT

The 21 percent proposed cut in the Labor Department reduces funding for job training programs that benefit seniors and disadvantaged youth. The proposal would also shift funding responsibility to states for certain job placement programs.

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Eliminates the Senior Community Service Employment Program, which helps low-income seniors find work

Closes poor-performing centers for Job Corps, a job-training program for disadvantaged youth

Eliminates grants that help nonprofit groups and public agencies pay for safety and health training

Expands efforts to reduce improper payments made to people receiving unemployment benefits

STATE DEPARTMENT, USAID AND TREASURY INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM

The 29 percent proposed cut to the State Department refocuses economic and development aid to countries of the greatest strategic importance to the U.S., and it shifts some foreign military aid from grants to loans. It also requires State and USAID to reorganize and consolidate.

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Eliminates climate-change prevention programs, including pledged payments to U.N. climate-change programs

Reduces funding for U.N. peacekeeping

Reduces funding for development banks such as the World Bank

Reduces most cultural-exchange programs, but keeps the Fulbright Program

TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT

The Transportation Department's budget would shrink by 13 percent. The spending plan would move what has been a core government function — air traffic control — outside of government hands, and push responsibility for many transit and other projects to localities.

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Shifts air traffic control outside the government

Eliminates funding for many new transit projects and support for long-distance Amtrak trains

Eliminates $175 million in subsidies for commercial flights to rural airports

Cuts $499 million from the TIGER grant program, which has funded dozens of road, transit and other projects

TREASURY DEPARTMENT

The Treasury's budget would shrink by 4 percent, with other funds reallocated toward the department's security missions: preventing hacking, seizing terrorists' bank accounts and enforcing sanctions on foreign adversaries.

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Reduces funding for the Internal Revenue Service by $239 million

Eliminates grants for Community Development Financial Institutions, which provide financial services in economically distressed neighborhoods

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

VA would be one of the few departments to see its budget grow, by 6 percent to $78.9 billion. Most of the increase would improve veterans' access to doctors and support services following a scandal in 2014 over patient wait times. The money would also help fill some of the agency's more than 45,000 vacant medical positions. Veterans Choice, a program that gives patients the option to see private doctors outside the VA system, would also expand.

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Adds $4.4 billion in new funding to expand health services and modernize VA's benefit claims system and other services

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Trump's budget begins to dismantle the EPA, shrinking its funding by 31 percent and eliminating a fifth of its workforce. More than 50 programs would be eliminated altogether, including Energy Star; grants that help states and cities fight air pollution; an office focused on environmental justice and cleanup efforts in the Chesapeake Bay and Great Lakes; and infrastructure assistance to Alaskan native villages and along the Mexican border. Funding for drinking water infrastructure would remain intact, but the agency's scientific research would suffer massive cuts.

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Eliminates more than 50 programs and 3,200 jobs

Discontinues funding for international climate-change programs

Cuts funding for the Office of Research and Development in half

Cuts funding for the Superfund cleanup program and the Office of Enforcement and Compliance

Prioritizes drinking water and wastewater infrastructure projects.

NASA

NASA will see only a small cut — about 1 percent of its 2017 budget. But the cuts come almost entirely from Earth-observing and education programs, suggesting that Trump aims to make good on campaign promises to shift NASA's focus away from our planet. The budget also directs NASA to find ways to collaborate with the commercial space industry. It makes no mention of the Journey to Mars, which is likely to add to speculation that Trump wants to shift NASA's focus to the moon.

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Cuts $102 million of funding from Earth science, terminating four missions aimed at understanding climate-change

Eliminates the $115 million Office of Education

Cuts $88 million from the Robotic Refueling Mission, which develops techniques to repair satellites

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

The Trump administration is proposing to cut about 5 percent of the Small Business Administration’s budget. The new plan would eliminate $12 million worth of technical-assistance grants and other programs where the administration thinks the private sector already “provides efficient mechanisms” for small-business development and growth.

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Eliminates PRIME technical-assistance grants, Growth Accelerators and Regional Innovation Clusters, saving about $12 million

Cuts $1 million of $46 million of loan guarantees currently available to small-business owners

ARTS AND CULTURAL AGENCIES

The Trump administration's proposal calls for eliminating four cultural agencies and their collective $971 million budgets. Most of the funds support nonprofit groups across the country, such as dance companies, radio stations, orchestras and theaters.

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Eliminates all $148 million for the National Endowment for the Arts and all $148 million for the National Endowment for the Humanities

Eliminates the $230 million Institute of Museum and Library Services

Eliminates the $445 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports public television and radio, including PBS and NPR

 

[Belgium]

First, here's how the parties identify themselves on the political spectrum.

Translation:

Progressief -> Progressive

Rechts -> Right

Conservatief -> Conservative

Links -> Left

The two noteable parties are the VVD and Geert Wilders' PVV, which is the one with the bird image

Now, here are the election results. The white bars "uitslagen 2012", indicate the results of the 2012 election.

And here are its results on the number of seats per party

Technically, the big winner here is GL, which stands for Green Left. This is all thanks to a very charismatic, progressive and young candidate Jesse Klaver. He connected very well with the younger generation. Many have compared him to Justin Trudeau. They will now have a lot more power at the negotiation tables and will likely be included in the coalition the VVD will form to have a supermajority.

The VVD, party of former prime minister Mark Rutte, actually ends up losing 8 seats but still maintains a sizeable number compared to Wilders' PVV. The biggest lost was the PvdA of course, losing a grand total of 29 seats. I don't know much about them other than that this kind of result was expected from them as people across the spectrum were strongly dissatisfied with the PvdA's role in government.

Wilders' PVV became the second largest party, which wasn't what Wilders was hoping for but the took the results well and has said there's always a new chance in the next election. His current number of seats puts him in a better position to conquer the next election. He said his current role will involve fierce opposition against whatever coalition the VVD will establish.

The VDD must now establish a coalition to form a large majority, which will be the hardest part given the changes in politics over the last few years.

 

[trueprada]

 

[rillo561]

I'm sure a lot of his supporters will be effected by that budget. So. Much. Winning.

 

[dathbgboy]

White, Irish, and undocumented in America
By Donie O'Sullivan
Updated 8:32 AM ET, Thu March 16, 2017

The name of the undocumented person featured in this report has been changed to protect her identity.

New York (CNN)They're spared the glances. The "go back to your country" slurs facing so many undocumented migrants in the US. But they live in fear. They don't call the police when there's a break in. They think twice before they bring a sick child to the emergency room. Only, they're white - and they're Irish.

An estimated 50,000 undocumented Irish immigrants live in the United States -- they make up a small percentage of the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants living there, the majority of whom were born in Mexico.
"It is easier being illegal here when you're white," Shauna, an undocumented Irish immigrant, tells CNN. "It's not easy, of course, you have that paranoia but there isn't the racial element. It's a bit easier to stay under the radar."
But there's a growing sense of fear in the community since the election of President Donald Trump.
"I've never seen fear like this here," Oliver Charles says standing in front of his butcher shop on McClean Avenue, in the predominantly Irish neighborhood of Woodlawn in the Bronx, New York.
"The fear is always there but now everybody is talking about it and everybody is worried."
A sign in Charles' store window reminds passersby to put in their corned beef order ahead of St. Patrick's Day -- a dish traditionally enjoyed on Ireland's national holiday on March 17.
Charles, who came to the US more than 40 years ago and is now a US citizen, doesn't ask his customers' immigration status, but he suspects that many are undocumented.
"That could affect my business," he says of Trump's proposal to deport America's undocumented immigrants.
Fear
Across the street is the Aisling Irish Community Center. Its windows full of job and apartment listings, it's an organization helping immigrants with legal advice and mental health services."I haven't seen this level of anxiety or fear," the center's director Orla Kelleher told CNN.
"People are generally anxious when they're out and about and are electing to lay low now because it seems that the ICE agents are using their discretion in a much greater capacity now than ever before."
She says there has been a three-fold increase in the number of undocumented Irish people seeking counseling services since President Trump's January travel ban.
Out West
With its street full of Irish bars and stores selling Irish products like Tayto potato chips and black pudding -- a type of sausage made using pork blood -- Woodlawn has one of the highest concentrations of Irish immigrants in the US, but the undocumented Irish are spread far and wide.
Three thousand miles away in San Francisco, Shauna is also anxious. She came here in her early twenties.
"This is where I became an adult, my life is here," she says.
Like many undocumented Irish, she entered the US legally on a holiday visa, thinking she'd stay a few months, a year at most. After long overstaying her holiday visa, she's still here ten years later.
It is estimated that a third to a half of all undocumented immigrants in the US have overstayed visas, rather than coming into the country illegally.
Why they come
Ireland has long been sending its people to the US. During the decade after the Irish Famine, which happened in the mid-19th century, almost 2 million Irish people emigrated to the US — a quarter of the country's population at the time.The mass migration accounts for why more than 11% of Americans are of Irish heritage — among them White House advisers Kellyanne Conway, Steve Bannon and Sean Spicer.
But famine is long gone from Ireland. And despite the effects of the 2008 global financial crisis, Ireland has one of the highest standards of living in the world.
According to the United Nations Human Development Index, Ireland ranks in 6th place, ahead of the US in 8th and well ahead Mexico, which is ranked 74th.
It's something that's not lost on Shauna.
"There's nothing stopping me from going home. I have family, support, it's not that I can't go home, it's that I can't come back."
The situation is more complicated for undocumented Irish people who have children.
Back at the Aisling Center in the Bronx, Orla Kelleher says they are most anxious about Trump's presidency.
"A lot of people have been here undocumented for more than half their life," she says.
"If you see this as home it's difficult to see where your future lies and having to uproot your family and start a new life somewhere you haven't lived for years."Irish America
Ciaran Staunton, a veteran of the Irish lobby for immigration reform in the US, says most of the undocumented Irish are from rural parts of Ireland where employment is more difficult to come by.
"The vast, vast majority of undocumented Irish here are from parts of Ireland where there are not a lot of jobs. And most undocumented here are doing jobs that Americans don't want to do."Earlier this month, Irish government figures showed that unemployment in the country had dipped to a nine-year low.
"That's because most of the unemployed people [in Ireland] moved to America," Staunton quips. "Almost 10% of the population of Ireland left in five years. Many of them ended up in cities here."
On Thursday, as the Irish of Woodlawn pickup their corned beef from Oliver Charles, President Trump will host Ireland's Taoiseach, or prime minister, Enda Kenny for the annual St Patrick's Day festivities at the White House.
For decades, Irish leaders have used the meeting to ask for visas for undocumented Irish people in the US.
In the past, exceptions were granted -- the Morrison and Donnelly visas of the 1980s and 1990s, named after the congressmen behind them, gave Irish citizens an advantage over some others seeking the American Dream.
"Irish immigrants fought in the revolution, the civil war, every battle, have more Congressional medals than any other. We're no better than anyone else, but we're no worse than anyone else either," he says.
But Staunton isn't looking for special exemptions just for the Irish, he hopes to see comprehensive immigration reform across the board.
"It's the one law that affects everyone, we're all in the same boat on this."
"The problem at the moment is that there isn't a path to citizenship, and if people overstay their visa they are banned," he adds.
Hypocrisy
Staunton's stance may represent an evolution in the campaign for the Irish undocumented, a move towards an approach that tackles immigration reform for citizens of all countries.
In his meeting, Taoiseach Kenny is expected to speak to President Trump about the undocumented Irish, though whether he'll ask for a special solution for Irish citizens is not clear.Fintan O'Toole, one of Ireland's most prominent social commentators wrote in The Irish Times last week that there "is tacit racism in the appeal to Trump to make Irish migrants a special case."
That may be the view of some in Dublin, but not all Irish-Americans.
"I have family here, second and third generation Irish. Their family came here as immigrants once," Shauna says. "They're the first to put on their green T-shirt on St Patrick's Day, but at the same time will turn around and say 'get every undocumented immigrant out of this country.'"
"I turn and look at them and say, I'm undocumented," she says, "they don't see it that way because I'm not brown and I'm not from Mexico, they see me differently. It's disgusting."
Life in President Trump's America has prompted Shauna and her boyfriend, also undocumented, to consider a route so many other undocumented Irish have taken: marrying an American friend to get a green card.
"I've started thinking about setting up a family, but there's a lot of risk to that when you're illegal," she says.
"Maybe I'll go home one day, but this feels like my home now."

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