The Know Nothing Party

The Know Nothing Party

Immigration and the know nothing party CH 13
Immigration has always made an impact on American society just as it still is in our nation today. But what’s hard for many to understand is that free immigration is an aspect of what our nation was founded on. Immigration as for global economic problems has pushed willing workers out of their nations, where they have no means to earn even a subsistence living and this pulled them into low-wage jobs in the United States, where the lack of labor protection left them vulnerable to exploitation. U.S. has always benefited from cheap labor, but immigrant workers and their families end up bearing the burdens of a broken immigration system. What has always been such an important aspect of America is its diversity and how it has a system that takes in the worlds poor and forgotten and allows them to build from that. Most Americans know for a fact that we are all considered immigrants of this nation because we were not the first inhabitants of this country in the first place.

What was need during this period with the rising issues around immigrant laws was better prosecution of businesses and consumers who used immigrants as cheap labor and were the only ones benefitting from their hard work. For businesses during this time they would rather pay small wages to the immigrants instead of having to supply American workers with higher salaries and benefits because that’s what the government enforces. Even if the government enforced better laws during this time, they would eventually see the negative impact this would have on industries that helped build the economy during this time. This is why the government clashed with the increase of immigrants and big businesses because it was helping to build the nation into an Empire which was what the government wanted. There were more pros towards cheap labor during this time than cons because the wealth was pouring in. They took advantage of not only illegal immigrants looking for...

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