Karl Marx Opposed Mass Immigration. Who Knew?
By Ira Mehlman January 11, 2019 4 Comments
A hundred years ago, as the United States began to wind down a period of mass immigration that began in the late-19th century, the push for limiting immigration came from the political left. The flood of immigrant workers into the United States led to exploitative and even deadly conditions for laborers as the nation culminated its industrial revolution. Labor unions and other progressives of the era saw limits on immigration as a necessary condition for improving the lot of American workers.
Today, the American left is openly in support of unchecked immigration, even though the surge of immigration over the past half century has been a prime factor contributing to the long-term stagnation of wages for American workers. The same has been true in Europe, but unlike the United States, there has been the emergence of a left wing effort to slow down immigration to the Continent.
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