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Appreciate the reply, and I think that what you are saying has merit. You are correct that it is not 100% an economic issue, I will admit my claim went too far, although I still think personal greed is the primary or original driver of this phenomenon.

What about much earlier American history? The influx of Chinese to build the railroads also seems driven by the price of labor and the need to exploit it. As far as slavery, I know that Jews were heavily involved in the slave trade, but if importing slaves was a conspiracy, this would likely revolve around appealing to the self-interest and economic greed of non-jewish Americans, although racial inferiority was definitely used to justify this, so again maybe I am biased towards seeing things only through the lens of economics.

I do think the situation in socialist democracies like we see in Scandinavian countries is different than the US. They create a very strong social safety net, and pay for it with progressive taxation, so there is no good economic greed motivation to import these people, because the rich will just have to subsidize their cost of living one way or another. I admit that my economic theory fails to explain why Scandinavian nations would embrace mass immigration. I can see that social/political ideology is indeed be a factor here, although I wonder if this was always the case, or a result of American culture pushing this narrative globally because we ended up with a melting pot due to greed, and need everyone to get along now. (You do however make a fair point about the democrats wanting to import a bunch of brown people due them voting Blue)

Anyways, this is issue is more nuanced that I was giving it credit for, and I appreciate you widening my perspective on this a bit