Master_Pedant wrote:
John_Browning wrote:
Just because one group is facing poverty doesn't make it another group's problem to magically fix everything and make it all better. It wouldn't work out for them long term anyway because they aren't exactly known for their business skills...okay, legitimate business skills.
A true canard stated by people who generally, somewhere in the generational past, benefited immensely from a massive public works program always say about today's underclass.
When my and most other American's families landed in America it was a swim or sink proposition. There was no government funded social "safety net" (or more like safety hammock for life as it has become) to catch them if they failed.
Comparing immigration then and now is like comparing apples to oranges.