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During the 1800s, nativists promoted the idea that immigrants contributed to unemployment by

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competing for jobs that they believed should go to people born in America

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The nativists believed immigrants were contributing to unemployment rates because they were taking jobs away from the nativists. This was of course silly because many nativists were immigrants themselves.
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