[GOPJ]

...North at that time was importing hordes of the poor from Europe

European poor came here on their own looking for a better life - they weren't being 'imported'... but the situation with illegals IS slaveryLite - and it's disgusting.

[Tell It Right]

Agreed. The European poor that immigrated here weren’t thinking of a better life of government checks, free insurance, and blaming existing Americans for all their problems. Their version of immigration wasn’t like modern illegal immigration.

But today’s cheap labor arguments are equal to what amounts to voluntary servitude of the past. The past voluntary servitude may not have been is bad as being a chattel slave, but it was done in with the intent of maintaining a permanent underclass— just like with today.

[FLT-bird]

European poor came here on their own looking for a better life - they weren't being 'imported'... but the situation with illegals IS slaveryLite - and it's disgusting.

There was often active recruitment over in Europe and of course, there were no controls over how many poor people from Europe poured in every year. Conditions for labor would have been significantly better in the US had the inflow been slower/more controlled. As it was, the flood of immigrants really strengthened the hand of corporations over workers then just as it does now.