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] [b]Nor was there such a thing as a poor "immigrant" around the turn of the 19 to 20 centuries.[/b] They had money to leave. [/quote]

This is not accurate.

Many, if not most, undocumented immigrants today are poor.  But some of these poor immigrants pay coyotes thousands for passage.  Paying to come here doesn't mean one isn't poor at all.

100 years ago, many immigrants were very poor too.  My husband's father lived in an apartment with 15 people (multiple adults).  They could only bathe 1 day a week.  He had to wear the same jacket the entirety of high school and meat was a rare treat, like pig knuckles in soup.  His mother was illiterate - she was a child laborer in the mountains, carrying pails up and down a mountain.  Her father had to live in a boarding home of men to save the cash to bring her here.  He inhaled food until the day he died because in boarding homes, if you didn't eat fast, you didn't eat.  My husband's father's father was a child laborer too.  He worked to earn a few cents a day to buy bones to make bone soup.  His father had his face blown off and could not work, but survived.  These were very poor people.  [/quote]

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