You forget the United States was in the middle of an industrial revolution in those days there were plenty of jobs that needed filling. Today is a vastly different story, most manufacturing jobs have been outsourced overseas. There simply aren't enough jobs for unskilled uneducated workers like in the early 1900's. So today's immigration IS vastly different as todays immigrants are likely to end up on public assistance that didn't exist back then. Back then they would starve if there were no jobs, today they come here rest assured they will be taken care of at the taxpayers expense.


The U.S. unemployment rate through out the 90s has been hovering around 5%. That is unheard of in American history. Also during this time the flow of migration to this country legal and illegal as also grown substantially. The argument that immigration as driving up the unemployment rate has no statistic merit.





To allow that is wrong as an enabler of an alcoholic family member. We enable them to run from their countries that are cesspools of corruption headed by tin pot dictators, there by enabling the situation to perpetuate itself. If there was nowhere for them to go, they might get angry enough to make the fundamental changes in their own country's system that has created the situation they want to run from. Freedom and prosperity are never free, that road is paved with brave souls willing to stand up and fight and possibly die for it. There is no short cut, no easy way, only an escape route if we choose to provide it and that is a bankrupt philosophy as it does nothing to rectify the original problem. Even if it means a civil war in their country where many perish, if the outcome is a thriving and prosperous democracy, then like our own Revolutionary War, it would be well worth it.



They came here the same reason why the Germans, Irish, and Italians came here. They were simply minded people that just wanted a better life. If you haven't notice many of those tin-pot dictators rule with an iron fist and anyone who publicly denounces them get sent to prison. My father was imprisoned for more than month because he took part in massive rally against the dictator of Bolivia (who I might add had American support). Some of this friends were never seen again after they protested.

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