Between 1900 and 1915, more than 15 million immigrants arrived in the United States. That was about equal to the number of immigrants who had arrived in the previous 40 years combined.
Library of Congress.
My father’s mom and her 4 Swedish siblings were in this group. They were processed and went to work or raised families. Only one got rich and he was the most charitable. A little before 1900 his grand parents came from Sweden and settled in a coal mine town.
This is from the scummy Atlanta-Journal Constitution. The only reason we don’t mention them in the same breath as the NYT or WaPo is because they don’t have the subscription numbers.
These are the same turds who set up Richard Jewell for the Olympic Centennial Park bombing in Atlanta. Completely innocent man.
And the posters on here are correct-Reagan was talking about people who want to come to America to be Americans. Legal immigrants. People of ANY color or creed who we welcome through a legal process.
Reagan didn’t have these people in mind, coming up here to sponge off the country’s largesse. These people at this newspaper were the kind who were thrilled to hear Reagan had Alzheimer’s, but relishing trying to use his rhetoric to somehow portray that conservatives have betrayed Reagan’s principles.
Reagan’s “enthusiasm” for immigration back in the late Eighties relates to the illegal immigration taking place today in the same way to Alexander Hamilton’s enthusiasm for Federal Government back in the 1790’s relates to the “Federal Government” we have today.
That is, it DOESN’T relate.
In the 1790’s what passed for a Federal Government is NOTHING like the monstrous, tyrannical Federal Government we have today.
Likewise, Reagan’s vision of Immigration in 1988 is NOTHING like the ILLEGAL Charlie Foxtrot we have today.