So the new immigration bill would increase visas for high tech jobs. How will this help us again?

[pampango]

33. What does "TL;DNR version: you gotta exploit SOMEBODY!" mean?

American anti-immigrant sentiments have historically been directed at:

Europeans in the 17th Century;

In 1798 the Alien and Sedition Acts limited the ability of immigrants, especially from France and Ireland, to gain full political rights ...

Catholics in the 19th century;

In 1854, the 'American Party', which was especially hostile to the immigration of Irish Catholics ...
In Charlestown, Massachusetts, a mob attacked and burned down a Catholic convent in 1834 (no one was injured). In the 1840s, small scale riots between Catholics and Protestants took place in several American cities. In Philadelphia in 1844, for example, a series of assaults on Catholic churches and community centers resulted in the loss of lives ...
Anti-Catholic sentiment experienced a revival in the 1890s, led by Protestant Irish immigrants hostile to Catholic immigration.

The Chinese;

In the 1870s Chinese immigrants were attacked in the western states, driving them out of smaller towns.
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first of many acts of Congress to limit the flow of immigrants into the U.S.

Anti-immigrant sentiment experienced a resurgence in the late 20th century, this time directed at illegal aliens, largely Mexican resulting in the passage of new penalties against illegal immigration in 1996.

...anyone who questions this poster may be a racist. - I am not calling anyone racist or anti-Catholic or anti-Irish. If you think that a look at anti-immigrant sentiment in American history is not relevant to current immigration reform proposals, just say so and move on. The ol' "Those in favor of immigration are always calling the rest of us 'racists' mantra gets a little old, especially when there are just as many non-racial factors listed in my post about historical sentiments about immigration as there are about race. (I noticed that you chose not to go with "anyone who questions this poster may be a anti-Catholic or anti-Irish." Guess that doesn't have the same pizzazz.)

Just because anti-immigrant sentiments have historically been centered on issues of race, religion and ethnicity (if you have evidence to the contrary I would love to see it) does not mean that everyone (either in the past or today) who opposes immigration does so for any of those reasons. I apologize if my post about an inconvenient aspect of American history offended you.

I hope that makes it clear that I don't think you are a racist.