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To: kevao; Poohbah
Were we undergoing an invasion by illegal immigrants in 1947?
488 posted on 01/09/2004 6:04:41 PM PST by Happy2BMe (r)
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To: Happy2BMe
Were we undergoing an invasion by illegal immigrants in 1947?

No.

Then again, we had a guest worker program so that it was a great deal easier for workers from Mexico to come here and work legally than to sneak across the border illegally. They could even go home at the end of their job, and come back when a new job was available.

We didn't have a large-scale illegal immigration problem until 1965.

Which just happens to be when the guest worker program was terminated.

I submit that the two events are connected.

492 posted on 01/09/2004 6:08:08 PM PST by Poohbah ("Beware the fury of a patient man" -- John Dryden)
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