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Rome. This happened to Rome.
Romans imported in tons of non-Romans to work for cheap while actual Romans left the core cities to the borderlands to find labor. Before long, the military/police was full of foreigners and the Romans were upset at the rent-seeking behavior of the rulers.
This has all happened before.
Was there an emancipation movement towards the fall of Rome?
Yes. The ridigity of the aristocracy started falling apart as new money merchants wanted equal status as founding families.
Was this before our boy Ceaser or after?
Caesar gave a lot of people Roman citizenship that shouldn't have had it. Caesar actually did a lot of bad things. He wasn't really that great at all tbh.
After Julius Augustus Caesar and the Five Good Emperors. You can argue when it really started, but the fact is that the Roman military was reliant on former legionaries joining mercenary bands to keep the wheels on by the end of the 1st Century AD, and two centuries later, something like a third of the legions were foreign born and serving just to "become Romans". This should sound familiar, if you follow modern military news.
Also, fun historical tidbit. The first person to become a Christian without becoming a Jew first, Cornelius, was a Italian mercenary working for a group that consisted of legionaries that had completed their service and refused to live in Rome.