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…yeah, huh?  Evil people who provided jobs to those willing to do the jobs.

You bet, …heap scorn on them, 

…and as an added bonus,  

...you can think you're getting two for one by calling all immigrant laborers 'illegals'.
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Some southern states tried outlawing the hiring of immigrant labor.

Passed some bans on immigrant labor.

Said their own residents needed the jobs.

Farms lost out when crops were left in the fields because those residents of those Southern states,

...walked off the job and refused to work, 

…as soon as they found out the backbreaking stoop labor was actually very hard work.
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Those laws were quickly repealed.


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Who is the 'problem'?  I think you better look a little deeper.
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