Railroads and speculators actively manufactured the immigrant influx through paid European propaganda

Evidence

Many businessmen, unwilling to leave matters entirely in the hands of a beneficent fate, actively expedited the immigrant traffic. … Here the railroads played a key role, as they did throughout the economy. … Railroads that pushed boldly into the empty West had a wilderness to settle. … They needed immigrants not just for construction but to buy the great railroad land grants and to insure future revenues. … Following the example set by the Illinois Central in the 1850’s, the Burlington, the Northern Pacific, and other lines sent agents to blanket northern Europe with alluring propaganda. … “The real estate owners,” said the head of a group of speculators planning to advertise in Europe, “are the parties who make money out of immigrants immediately on their arrival.” — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 98

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Forced emigration of a minority functions as propaganda that spreads the persecutor’s ideology abroad; European immigrants’ racial difference had to be intellectually manufactured — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 768; Industrialized economies deliberately produce a disadvantaged immigrant underclass for menial labor — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2586 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Forced emigration of a minority functions as propaganda that spreads the persecutor’s ideology abroad #expands (0.75)
• Industrialized economies deliberately produce a disadvantaged immigrant underclass for menial labor #expands (0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2586
• European immigration is governed by three interacting economies of labor, morality, and politics #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 935
• European immigrants’ racial difference had to be intellectually manufactured #complicates (0.72) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 768
• Early American industrial labor was overwhelmingly foreign-born #corroborates (0.72) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 988