The slave owners of old and the employers of illegals today are much the same. Employers today make the same dire Prophesies sopprting their deeds as the  slave owners of old  did.  Employers of  illegal workers and those that support illegal immigration say that with out it our economy would collapse. The south  made the same argument in support of slavery. They said ”cotton rice and tobacco would become unprofitable if slavery ended abruptly and that chaos would ensue”. Advocates of Illegal immigration and employers say that it is morally right to employ these people because they are better off working here illegally than working in their own country. Slave owners and southern Politicians said “that Slavery brought Christianity to the heathen from across the ocean”. Slavery was, according to this argument, a good thing for the enslaved. John C. Calhoun said, “Never before has the black race of Central Africa, from the dawn of history to the present day, attained a condition so civilized and so improved, not only physically, but morally and intellectually.” they also said “ by comparison with the poor of Europe and the workers in the Northern states, that slaves were better cared for. They said that “their owners would protect and assist them when they were sick and aged, unlike those who, once fired from their work, were left to fend helplessly for themselves”. The arguments made for the Slavery in the south and for illegal migrant workers are all the same, we have been here before, and we have not learned from history.

          Once again we in the United States are faced with slavery, This time our Federal Government is on the side of the slave owners. It has done every thing it can to facilitate it. The slaves this time are more willing to come, but they are disadvantaged just the same.  At first the U.S. Government supported the slavery in the south but eventually under pressure changed its tune. It remains to be seen what our first black president will do about this newer form of slavery.  eventually though the Fedreal Government will have to change its tune for the survival of the Nation. 

Note: the quotes in this article are taken from Lesson 27f  The Southern Argument for Slavery (ushistory.org)