Reply #13: The argument you make is nothing new... [View All]

[Cleobulus]

about immigrants in this country, you mention the 1980s, well in the 1880s it was the Irish, Italians and various Eastern European groups, along with Chinese that were the preferred targets of anti-immigration rhetoric. Its easy to blame the "other" especially when the truth can be so clouded. The fact is that the reason jobs were having wages depressed and became harder to find wasn't because of immigration, but because of the systematic dismantling of the inroads of Unions and employment security that was built in the 1940s and 50s and destroyed by conservative government over the past 30 years.

Its similar to the "Guilded Age" of over a century ago, the excesses of the rich lead to the progressive era, and important progress was made in that time. But the fact of the matter is that to blame it on a group of people, any group, that in themselves have little power or influence in this country, is irrational.