You’re right. The minor quibble was about the term ‘imported’. “Recruited” works for me - and shows freedom of choice on the part of workers coming here.
Agree the people poor multitudes pouring in had freedom of choice. Nobody forced them to come. Just like the 10 million + illegal aliens who poured into the country during the Biden regime were not forced to come and had freedom of choice too.
The result of this uncontrolled flood of poor people led to many of the same abuses then that we see now...people trafficked, sweat shops, very unsanitary living conditions, etc. I hate to even put it like this because these are terms the Commies often use, but there was real “exploitation” of many of these poor people by corporate fatcats going on. The presence of so many allowed them to crush the bargaining power of American workers too.