My memories also. I can remember knowing how women were being suckered. Prices of everything would rise, because there would be more disposable income. Government & businesses keep track of such things, & they only let the little guy have just so much of his earnings.
And I worked in both big & small businesses & knew that most family budgets come to depend on two incomes & the woman is trapped unless the couple makes a big effort to save one of the incomes.
It's not that these people are coming to America that is the problem, it's the vehement refusal to become Americans, speak English, and become PART of America that is the problem: they want to re-create their little socialist hell-holes, rather than (oh yeah, he's gonna use the word) ASSIMILATE into the culture that has given rise to the single beacon for THE INDIVIDUAL.
As to your aspersions toward our youth, remember that you seldom see 4-H rs in the news, or the Civil Air Patrol, but they are there, and what you see on TV, the paper, and even the internet does NOT reflect the reality of youth today. The reason you see so many "bad apples" is simply because there are more people. Really.