Immigration Reform Becomes a Priority…Again

Canada Free Press ^ | 01/12/15 | Alan Caruba

[Sean_Anthony]

Real issues of Immigration are as much about people as politics, as much about its costs as about compassion

Every few years immigration becomes a political issue and, in truth, it has always been an issue in the minds of generations of Americans from its earliest years. Initially, those who were here, largely from England, wanted others like them, but America was a dynamic place spreading West and with a growing industrial sector.

Events elsewhere in the world also played a role. By the middle half of the nineteenth century more than one-half of the population of Ireland emigrated due to a famine there. They were joined by Germans who came to America to escape severe unemployment, civil unrest, and other hardships.

From 1820 to 1870, more than seven and a half million immigrants came to the United States—more than the entire population of the country in 1810. Their labor helped build canals and railroads.

[Resolute Conservative]

And they were mostly hard working Europeans that wanted a new life and invested in America, a complete opposite of who we let in today...

[UncleSam]

“O, woe is me, T’have seen what I have seen, see what I see!”