They would have been raked over very hot coals, but it's hard take today's media and project it onto a culture over 100 years ago. So many other things would be different. But it is an interesting premise; kind of like a Jules Verne Time Machine....."Today, another boat load of dirty, illiterate Italian immigrants landed on Ellis Island. There to greet them were hundreds of 1st generation Americans carrying signs that read, "Go home you Guinea Slobs" and "Don't Oil our Soil". Fights broke out and one man was thrown in the harbor water...."