The United States government policies and programs affect the Irish immigrants through workforce and religious conflicts. According to the Library of Congress (2012), the Irish arrived to the Americas during the colonial times in the 1880s. Some of the Irish immigrants were not prepared for the industrial society in the United States. The Irish had to take the jobs with the worst conditions because no American wanted to take that jobs. Thousands of Irish were killed during the process of construction and mine working. The Irish first left their homeland for religious conflict but when riots began on Catholic and Protestants spread across the United States, the Irish were facing the same problems they wanted to leave behind. According to the article article, the Potato Famine and Irish Immigrants, (Constitutional Rights Foundation, 2013) discuss that anti -Irish and anti-Catholics created the “No Irish need apply” because they believe the Irish wouldn’t be true patriotic Americans.
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