Anybody who grew up in the Midwest and has a memory that extends to pre-1980 knows how patently false Ruben’s premise is.
Did we have meat on the table then? Yes. Where did it come from? Meatpackers. These meatpackers that employed Americans (many of them my neighbors), who were born in the USA, and lived here their whole lives. Was it a great job? No. Did they earn enough to have a wife, a couple kids, a car (or two) and a house? Yes.
Remember going to a hotel in the ’70′s? Was the room clean? Who cleaned it? US citizens, legally able to work here.
I don’t suppose you had strawberries or tomatoes back then? You did! How did that happen without the labor force being 99% illegal? Oh my gosh! Americans did the work? Are you sure??
Of course, if Ruben actually lived in the USA back then, he might know that.
