But that's when Ellis Island came into play, HK. More Italians (and Europeans in general) came to America between 1880 and 1920 than at any other time. That's not going to happen again.

Now America will always be a "Nation of Immigrants." But there has been a clear shift as to who gets in and who doesn't in recent years. The powers that be don't encourage immigration from Western European (read: White Judeo-Christian) countries anymore. And it's a shame .