Pay fair and equal reparation to all the Italian citizens of Emigrants that traveled to America between 1700 and 1960.

This is a petition to pay fair and equal reparation to all Italian /Americans currently residing in the United States of America. Our ancestors were basically taken advantage of by "Padrones" and were subject to a very low unfair pay, intolerable living conditions , long work days in sweat shops and discriminated against as foreigners. Most were traveling to a land they had never been to and did not have the modern day amenities such as welfare,food stamps , free medical care , and free subsistence that is now given to illegal immigrants. Nor were they they given any rights such as voting and were subject to the scrutiny of unsavory people that would regularly take advantage of immigrants and more often than not lower their life expectancy. Their lower than normal wages offered slum living