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Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan said he would convey to the US vice president Joe Biden and secretary of state John Kerry in meetings today the deep sense of frustration on the part of the Irish community that expectations have been raised in the past and ultimately not realised. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

The time for overhauling US immigration laws benefiting an estimated 50,000 illegal Irish has long passed, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Charlie Flanagan has said on a visit to Washington.

The Irish community in the US had experienced disappointment after disappointment as plans to change immigration laws had faltered in Congress because of political differences, said Mr Flanagan.

Hot topics are the matter of politics. The fact something is hot - and I acknowledge that it is controversial - but that is no reason for it to be ignored, said Mr Flanagan after meeting Congressman Joseph P Kennedy of Massachusetts, the grand-nephew of President John F Kennedy, in his Capitol Hill offices.

I know from my own work as constituency TD in Laois-Offaly the harrowing tales of people disconnected most unfairly over a long number of years from their loved ones, he said.

He referred to the Irish living illegally in the US who were unable to return back to Ireland for festive engagements like christening and weddings and traumatic and difficult occasion such as funerals.

The Senate, with the support of Democrats and Republicans, passed a bill last year that would put an estimated 11 million so-called undocumented immigrants in the US on a path to citizenship.

The proposed legislation has faltered in the Republican-led House of Representatives where the party is concerned about granting what they see as an amnesty to immigrants who have breached laws and the level of security along Americas border with Mexico.

Mr Flanagan said he would convey to the US vice president Joe Biden and secretary of state John Kerry in meetings today the deep sense of frustration on the part of the Irish community that expectations have been raised in the past and ultimately not realised.

President Barack Obama recently reversed plans to take executive action on immigration, bypassing Congress, shelving the divisive issue until after the Congressional midterm elections in early November when Democrats are attempting to retain control of the Senate.

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In a speech delivered in 2004 before a conference sponsored by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, former Democratic Governor of Colorado, Richard D. Lamm, in my opinion, made a very prophetic statement. It was entitled: I Have A Plan To Destroy America. I have paraphrased significant points of the presentation.

l. We must first make America a bilingual-bicultural country.

2. We must invent multiculturalism and encourage immigrants to maintain their own culture. I would declare it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rate is only due to prejudice and discrimination by the majority.

3. We can make the United States a Hispanic Quebec without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity.

4. Having done this, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least educated I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, under educated and antagonistic to the majority population. I would allow our immigration pattern to take 50 percent of our immigrant stream from Spanish speaking countries. I would radicalize them with dreams of Atzlan and re-conquering the American Southwest.

5. I would get the big foundations and big businesses to give these efforts lot of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of victimology. I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority population.

6. I would establish dual citizenship and promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate diversity. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other. A diverse peaceful or stable society is against most historical precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together, and we can take advantage of this myopia. We can put the emphasis on the pluribus, instead of the unum.

7. I would find words similar to heretic as used in the 16th century that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like racist, xenophobic that halts argument and conversation would be made taboo. I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra that because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good and ignore the cumulative impact.

8. Finally, I would get America accustomed to living on borrowed money. Debt is economic cocaine; it becomes addicting. I would start borrowing money, and slowly I would begin building up public and private debt. Debt will be the precipitating factor that will allow us to successfully overthrow the United States government.

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Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, says President Obama will poison the well on immigration if he acts on the issue unilaterally after the midterm elections.

If the president, in the lame-duck session of Congress, after the elections but right before a new session, tries to do some kind of an unconstitutional work around Congress, he will poison the well for immigration reform and make a political decision to not work on getting immigration reform, Mr. Ryan said on Fox Business Network.

The key, Mr. Ryan said, is workable legal immigration. The Democrat-controlled Senate passed a broad bill last year that boosts border security and provides a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country, while the GOP-controlled House has favored a step-by-step approach.

What we want to do is just make sure national security is taken care of first, Mr. Ryan said. I mean, secure the border, have interior enforcement, actually get that done, actually verify that thats done, and then go fix the the other things that are broken with immigration. With ISIS, with heroin coming into our schools, this is a national security crisis. We have to deal with this border issue. The president hasnt, and thats whats frustrating to Republicans.

The issue received renewed attention earlier this year with an influx of young illegal immigrants coming into the U.S. from countries such as El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. To the consternation of many pro-immigrant groups, Mr. Obama ultimately decided to postpone any major unilateral moves on the issue until after the elections.

But Mr. Ryan said if Mr. Obama does decide to go around Congress, he will put millions of people in legal limbo and poison the goodwill in Congress to get anything done on a bipartisan basis.

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