How will immigrants fare in declining economy?

THE other morning here in Seattle, National Public Radio ran a piece on what the reporter referred to, in a quizzical tone, as the flood of immigration into Ireland in the last five years.

The reporter’s tone implied a mystery as to the reason, but to your readers it is no such thing.

That aside, it is reported there is now an area in the centre of Dublin called Little Africa — home to hundreds of Nigerians — and that there are 150,000 Polish and 80,000 Chinese immigrants currently in Ireland, and that there are 40,000 new immigrants every year.