Reply #132: Up to the 80, Americans did. [View All]

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The illegal immigration problem was not much of a problem. People moved here from Mexico, but they waited in line like everybody else. Caesar Chavez was against illegal immigration. Union membership made sure companies didn't circumvent the hiring practices and livable wages by hiring, and terrorizing illegals with threats of deportation.

Then Reagan came in, fired the Air traffic controllers, gave amnesty to millions of illegals, relaxed the enforcement of hiring laws, looked the other way while employers broke immigration hiring laws, and broke the union's backs.

There are some blemishes, like deporting the chinese after the railroads were finished, but the Hoover Dam and Golden Gate Bridge were New Deal WPA projects, and were MOST CERTAINLY NOT employing illegal aliens.

It seems that it is YOU who don't know what he's talking about, Mr. "I refuse to say which elite North Eastern City I reside in".