Accusations are part of a right word shift in America where the majority of our problems

are laid at the feet of people Republicans claim have broken into the country like burglars

to steal jobs and money from the real Americans. What they fail to acknowledge is that foreign labor has fueled the American economy for generations.

Millions of young African men and women kidnapped and transported to this country and forced to become America's

most efficient laborers.

They were sold as property, bred like cattle, and resettled on forced labor camps with a single

task of planting and picking cotton, cultivating rice and other crops,

hurting cattle, and building the grand homes and iconic buildings that define America.

The profits from cotton alone propelled the U.S US into one of the leading economies in the world by the 19th century and made the South America's most prosperous region until the Civil War.

After which the wealth of the country shifted north to the railroad

men and the industrialists. With that came to 15,000 forgotten Chinese migrants who helped

build the western portion of America's transcontinental railroad in the late 1800s.

They were paid less than American workers and lived in tents,

while white workers were given accommodations in train cars.

These people immigrated to the country because there was a labor shortage

that threatened the railroad's completion. They helped make it happen. In the east,

it was roughly 10,000 Irish immigrants who helped build the

eastern section of that railroad. Irish immigrants also helped build a number of

America's key canals like the Erie Canal because few locals would work for the

low wages that the newly arrived Irish would. During World War II this country

created an agreement called the Bracero Program that sought labor

for millions of Mexican men to work legally in the United States on short-term labor contracts. These agreements address the national agricultural labor shortage

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