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Originally Posted by Dead Eye
50 strange things
My ex wife's grandfather (irish) was showing me pictures a few years ago of his old housing projects. The world famous queens bridge houses, queens ny.
It was all irish and italian immigrants on welfare.
Of course they finally got accepted as equal whites and were able to avoid redlining to get up out of there... but they had to start at the segregated bottom everybody else got stuck in for a while.
Shit changed once whites became a minority in nyc tho. Now everybody is getting up out of there. Nobody stuck anymore.
Im rambling, but i just assumed most immigrants had to start from the bottom. I dont have much experience in all this as im puerto rican descent. Entire different problem. Citizens that get treated as [illegal] immigrants no matter what we look like or do.
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I believe you are talking about way back in the day, early 1900s, when Italians and Irish were seen as the lowest of the low? My ancestry has a similar story. Late 1800s, farmers from Prussia. Completely different times with completely different rules and a completely different welfare system.
That was 100-150 years ago. Today legal immigration is not as simple, which is why so many try immigrating illegally. ;-) There are stipulations for persecution in their home country and things of that nature as well.
As a whole, the new host country does not want to be bringing in new citizens that cannot contribute to their society. This is not a United States thing, this is a whole world thing. Think about it logically. Why would you take a guest in your home that eats your food but won't even help clean up the kitchen?
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