Next thing we do is turn around and import an entire new wave of de-facto slaves.
I DON'T GET IT.
If they come here voluntarily, how are they slaves?
Next thing we do is turn around and import an entire new wave of de-facto slaves.
I DON'T GET IT.
Its very simple. Too many of the descandants of the old slaves want to loaf about and sip malt liquor on their porch all day. Americans have decided this is quite laudable, and set up multi-hundred billion dollar per annum wealth transfer programs to make sure they can do it in style. The Mexicans want to work, and are willing to do so for peanuts.