immigration

5 Black Leaders Lend Their Voices to the Debate Immigration has been a problem in America since the first European settiers arrived and disrupted the civilizations of the natives they encountered. Enslaved Africans followed shortly and, together with White indentured servants, formed the first pool of a long line of exploited workers who generated for others much of the wealth that built this country. Through the 19th and 20th centuries, new waves of immigrants came - Irish driven from their homeland by the potato famine, Jews fleeing oppression in Eastern Europe and peoples from dozens of So...