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Originally Posted by fnelson9
The U.S. didn't even have any immigration laws to speak of until 1917 and our current system of regulating immigration didn't exist until 1952. For nearly two hundred years, our immigration policy was "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free... " and all it did was make the United States an economic and political superpower.
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We didn't have the wonderful "social" programs prior to 1952 either. The promise of the United States was OPPORTUNITY, not a FREE HANDOUT like it is today.
So if you came into the U.S. in 1875 you had to work to survive. Today you just get a fake drivers license and social security card, and you get all the public assistance you need.
My wife sees it every day in the medical field. They all have Medicaid, they don't speak English (many different nationalities, many different languages), and it continues to get worse every year.
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