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Immigration debate parallels  view story
Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
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The immigrants work for peanuts, drive down wages and push Americans out of good jobs. They swarm the hospitals, jails and welfare rolls. Their neighborhoods are crime-ridden. They don't learn English. They won't assimilate.
The sentiments could have sprung from last month's House debate on illegal immigration. But those arguments were made 128 years ago before a congressional committee investigating the heavy influx of Chinese immigrants.
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