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Wage Workers, Immigrants Didn’t Create Our ‘Corporate Kleptocracy’

Posted On: Jul 12, 2017

July 12, 2017 | COMMENTARY | The wailing in our country about the “invasion of immigrants” has been long and loud. As one complainant put it, “Few of their children in the country learn English… The signs in our streets have inscriptions in both languages…Unless the stream of the importation could be turned they will soon so outnumber us that all the advantages we have will not be able to preserve our language, and even our government will become precarious.” That’s not some diatribe from the alt-right. It’s the anxious cry of none other than Ben Franklin, deploring the wave of Germans pouring into the colony of Pennsylvania in the 1750s… inthesetimes.com