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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.