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TomSlick

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7. Before the US was the US, the economy has always relied on cheap immigrant labor.
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 09:55 PM
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Some came on slave ships, some were indentured servants, some were people immigrating in hopes of finding work - any work. We are a nation of the descendants of immigrant laborers - the wretched refuse of some country's teeming shore.

The children of immigrant labors find better work than their parents. Their children go to college and work their way into the middle class. These children and grandchildren of immigrant laborers must be replaced with another generation of immigrant laborers. If cheap immigrant labor disappears, the economy will collapse.

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