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Related: About this forumIllegal immigration 150 years ago.
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Illegal immigration 150 years ago. (Original Post)
argyl
Jan 2019
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The Polack MSgt
(13,159 posts)1. Thank you Argyl
I feel shamed that I never heard this album - I should have been all over this.
I love getting fresh music here
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)2. Steve Earle is the best.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)3. Didn't 'born' Americans pay immigrants to fight in their place?
Have immigrants fight in your place in Civil War. And today....and then don't pay the promised 'path to citizenship.'
argyl
(3,064 posts)4. $300.00 to hire a stand in and you were exempt.
In July of 1863 Lower Manhattan was torn apart by the Draft Riots.
And this riot quickly degenerated into a full blown race riot. Whites, mainly Irish immigrants and citizens, turned their fury on black citizens.
The most destructive riot in US history, about 120 people were killed, mostly black Americans.
Regiments of the US Army, many fresh from the Battle of Gettysburg, were called in to quell the uprising.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)5. Thanks for comment! From beginning of war rich guys paid poor guys to take riches' place IIRC