Colm O'Regan: Your J1 could get you a job with Trump

The J1 visa is infamous for enabling Irish 21-year-olds to shortcut the American dream and get great jobs. Seriously, a friend of a friend came back from a J1 having got a job managing an airfield. His qualification? Being a cousin of someone

Colm O'Regan: "Remember when Robert F Kennedy was our big worry, the guy with brain worms who once left a bear cub carcass in Central Park and will probably lead a retreat from life-saving vaccines?"Picture: Chani Anderson.

Parents be warned! If your children are headed on a J1, make sure they are aware of the risks from the Trump administration. Not from being stopped at immigration. But from being hired. By the looks of things, they’ll hire anyone.

In his first term, the people he hired, they were kind of common Bad Guys. You know, industry magnets, oil barons, defensive hawks. The kind of villains in a Disney movie who want to shut down the kids’ playground and build condos on it.