In my family, the immigration happened between 1850 and 1900. My great-grandparents were mostly born in Germany and Ireland. They came here with stars in their eyes, hoping to find a better life in the Midwest. They worked hard, scrimped and saved, married each other and raised their families.
There were so many immigrants coming in during that time (after the Civil War) that they all intermarried. The already established Americans who were born here, had nothing to do with those who came later. My German great-grandfather married my Irish great-grandmother, and so on down the line. Some of them died young, some lived long and purposeful lives.
What if there had been ICE-assholes throwing everyone out of the country back in 1890? There would have been nobody to take those dangerous jobs in the steel mills and factories, nobody to start restaurants and wait on tables, nobody working the farms growing food and picking the crops, nobody to do the hard jobs with low pay. The USA would have become a horrible backward country much, much earlier.
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