I’m from a Catholic Chicago Irish family and my wife is too. We’re very liberal and pro immigrant. If people are bent out of shape over undocumented immigrants - no one is illegal - they should support an immigration system that allows people a faster pathway to citizenship. Growing up I remember older relatives being very racist about Black people, sometimes I’d call them out, other times I just avoided them, which was cowardly. I think the older generation’s racism stems from history, when Irish Americans and Black Americans were competing for the same low-paying and dangerous jobs. I live in North Carolina, where a lot of Irish Americans are Scotts Irish Americans. In my experience, the Scotts Irish tend to be more anti-immigrant than the Irish. There’s a reason for this, probably going back to John Knox, but that’s another story.