This Oak character is just playing a fox-in-the-henhouse routine, assuming that we are all knuckle dragging imbeciles in dire need of education. (note: If oak had a formal education, it's likely we paid for it, and he is still paying it back while working as a Williamsburg cheese consultant)
So we've covered the immediate needs that immigrants are granted and he keeps bouncing back to the New Deal. Fine. So let's talk about societies general improvements that don't show up at the department of social services website or in any other countries except for western Europe feminist governments, which we dutifully protect.
The clean air act, the clean water act, the equal pay act of 1963 (girl power!), the american fisheries act (an indirect result of which is immigrants lining the banks of Jamaica Bay and catching more than plastic bags and syringes), the DEP (city), the DEC (state), the EPA (federal), sewage treatment (aka: we are not Venezuela and drowning in our own shit), NOAA, NMFS, national parks, state parks (i.e.: we don't pave over every square inch of habitation with concrete and call it a country), and last but certainly not least --- free reign over every starbucks bathroom from sea to shining sea,,, whether you were a customer or not (recently acquired).
OSHA (occupational hazards act), HIPAA, the endangered species act, the wetlands protection act, the Jones Act, and on, and on, and on...
Nowhere will you find civil protections as you find here, and that's why people come here.
Post of the year. I'll say it again, anyone who compares the immigration of today to immigration that happened 60-80 years ago is lacking an education. Sixty years ago manufacturing made up a huge portion of the country's economy, and the population was smaller compared to what it is today. There was also a long period of time where very little immigrants came to the US, because the Government wanted to assimilate the huge numbers who came in the early years of the 20th Century. Now we have a "service" based economy, with no use for low skilled labourers, but certain people believe it's good to bring those people here. These are the same people who mock Trump for talking about building up the coal industry. They think the country can bring in an infinite number of people to the country without any negative effects. One of the reasons the standard of living is down in the U.S. is uncontrolled immigration, it pushes down wages. The cost of immigration is staggering, much of illegal immigration. In some places they make up the majority of the prison population.
