I don't believe that's true in a lot of instances.
Infrastructure, Medicare and related benefits for example.
And since the Social Security fund was used as a piggy bank...by both parties...the money that was used must be replaced to keep it solvent.
Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants are using fake SS numbers in their jobs...and no government agency on any level has bothered to check...since it's 'free' income to the feds.
I want to say that the vast majority of immigrants that came to this country during the Industrial Revolution were uneducated and became blue collar laborers...just like the Hispanics today.
My grandfather from Sicily worked for Republic Steel in Buffalo, New York.
His presence wasn't appreciated by large segments of the American population...for a lot of the same reasons you have a problem with illegals today.
Today, his great-grandchildren are business owners and in college. My daughter is in her 2nd year at Yale Law School and her brothers are in Indiana and Emory University respectively.
My point of course is that all immigrants are looked upon as 2nd class people by too much of our fellow countrymen.
My unwarranted advice....pay attention to your own life and family...and demonstrate a love for this great country with which we've been blessed.
Unsolicited maybe but unwarranted, definitely not.
Good post.