The Americans should send the Irish back where they came from

Greetings Brian, I finally get to debate regarding one of your ludicrous topics. : ) Have fun, and should I bother to ask that you keep it clean? :P Firstly, my opponent states that the Irish began causing trouble when they saw that the wealthy upper classes were, indeed, wealthy. This is a stereotype, of course. There were many hard working Irishmen whom worked hard and attempted to keep their families fed while their families lived in squalor and filth - sometimes in the slums, unless the Irishman could somehow get his family West or into a respectable position. Another stereotype occurs when we state that the Irishmen were labourers and dockhands. This is mostly true, but not necessarily always. Yes, the dockhands in New York or Chicago were more often than not brawny Irish stevedores or dockhands, but they weren't all necessarily dockhands, stevedores or ordinary labourers. The United States of America has a lot to thank Irishmen for. Its factories wouldn't have run and its shipping would have palled - what self-respecting Yank wanted to work in horrendous factory conditions, or spend time heaving boxes or shipments at the dockyards? If it weren't for Irishmen, USA shipping may have ground to a halt, as half of the merchant crews were foreign. William Harnett enriched the culture of the United States by producing illustrious paintings during the late 1800s. Henry Ford is another famed American who was born of Irish parents whom fled the potato famine. A couple of noted Irish military figures whom fought in United States' Armies (I saw 'Armies', as the time ranges and some may have fought in the Continental, the Union, the Confederate, the USA or any of a variety of State militias) or the Navy are John Barry, Michael Corcoran, Stephen Kearney, Richard Montgomery and Richard Sheridan. John Dunlap was an Irishman who first issued copies of the Declaration of Independence. The famed John L. Sullivan was born of Irish parents - what would the boxing ring have been like without ol' Sullivan, tell me that? Also, my opponent seems to indicate that the only gangsters were Irish. this is, of course, an unfounded assumption. The famed Al Capone was Italian in root, and his gang was quite possibly the most powerful and notorious of the time. "Charles "Lucky" Luciano was a Sicilian-born American gangster who was born in 1897. He was considered to be the father of modern organized crime in the United States." ( ** Gangsters) John Gotti and the Gambino family were also Italian. Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, Harry Longabaugh ('Sundance Kid') and many others were famed American outlaws. Jefferson Davis, though technically not an outlaw, was a Kentucky man that caused the death of more people than all of the Irish gangster combined. As such, I have ruled that the Irish have helped more than hindered, and that people of other nations (including the USA) have caused more trouble than all of the Irish combined. Furthermore, I have already proven that it is thus morally wrong to evict the Irish from a nation where they've dedicated so much. Irish soldiers have fought for the USA in all of its conflicts and been patriotic ever since. Evicting them would be a moral injustice. * Prominent Irish-Americans: http://en.wikipedia.org... ** Gangsters: http://www.xomba.com... *** Gangsters II: http://www.legendsofamerica.com... Longabaugh, aka Sundance Kid, Frank Smith, H.A. Brown, Harry A. Place, Harry Long (1867-1911) Jefferson Davis: http://en.wikipedia.org...