Originally Posted by
PwrdOn
How does this not just support my point exactly? Americans wanted cheap labor to fuel growing industries, but also wanted to retain a white majority because of course they did, and so invented all kinds of justifications for why mass migration from Europe should be encouraged, while immigration from elsewhere would be discouraged or barred, even if these workers represented a much cheaper option to fill the gaps in the labor force than relatively high wage Europeans. Things haven't really changed much to the present day, except that now most of the push factors driving emigration from Europe are gone now, and white people are mostly happy to stay put where they are. But even if they were not, I'd still have a hard time picturing the border patrol riding down a group of poor, starving Norwegians on horseback. The existence of America as a white majority nation on a decidedly non-white hemisphere is an entirely artificial construct that was sustained only by openly racist immigration laws, and the historical facts aren't really in dispute. Who knows what the country would look like if the immigration rules had been fair from the beginning, but it certainly wouldn't look anything like it does now.
And you would really have to strain yourself to try and argue that America doesn't need any more workers, because in the current state of affairs, immigrants are needed to fill jobs both at the low end and high end of the job market. By and large, American-born workers, particularly whites, are unwilling to do menial jobs regardless of pay, and because of our shoddy education system, are not really all that competitive in high skill, high tech fields either. Indeed, the main contribution that "real Americans" make to the economy these days is through their excessive spending habits compared to immigrants, who are famously stingy and typically save most of their money to send to family back home. Even if you somehow managed to stabilize the birth rates and implemented enough border security to essentially bar any new entrants, the future of white America would still be rather bleak because it would quickly devolve into a nation of people who are too soft to do manual labor, and too dumb to work in advanced fields, slowly but surely frittering away the vast pile of wealth that their ancestors accumulated through genocide, slavery, and exploitation, leaving future generations with nothing to show for all of it.