As the crisis at the southern border has continued to attract national attention, something

Joe Biden said at his last press conference has stuck with me.

It's not like somebody sitting on a hand-earned table in Guatemala, I mean, somewhere in Mexico

or in Guatemala, they said, I got a great idea.

Let's sell everything we have.

Give it to a coyote.

Have them take our kids across the border into a desert where they don't speak the language?

Well, that'd be fun.

Let's go.

That's not how it happens.

People don't want to leave.

When my great-grandfather got in a coffin ship in the Irish Sea, expectation was he going

to live long enough on that ship to get to the United States of America.

But they left because with the Brits of Inuit.

I'm Ryan Grimm, and this is deconstructed.

What the Brits had been doing was one of the great crimes of the 19th century.

We know it today as the potato famine, but as anybody raised with a bit of pride in their

Irish heritage nose, a lack of food was not Ireland's real problem.

The potato blight, after all, affected crops all over Europe, but it was only the Irish

who starved.

The problem was that the British government was intent on disciplining their Irish subjects

and carrying out an economic experiment on their bodies.

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