Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----who want a path to legitimate citizenship to work in the United States, I for one will not leave them isolated and alone at a time of considerable concern for them. If Deputy Coppinger checks with the emigrant offices, she will note the increased activity and calls and visits from Irish people - the Deputy's brothers and sisters and mine - who are concerned about what might happen here. It is for that reason more than anything else that I want to be able to speak directly, eye-to-eye, to the American President and inform him of their passion for a path to legitimate citizenship of the United States to work for that economy and their families in the land of their choice.

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