President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson both spoke glowingly of immigrants on Wednesday, even as the White House calls migrants crossing the southern border an “invasion.”
“America has truly been blessed by the courage and unstoppable spirit of the Irish,” Trump said at the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon. “Over the generations, Americans of Irish ancestry have helped build our railroads and raise our cities and man our factories, enrich our culture with art and music and literature.”
“Irish Americans have left an indelible mark on American history,” Johnson said in his introductory remarks at the luncheon, noting that three signers of the Declaration of Independence were born in Ireland, as was the architect of the White House, James Hoban.
