Anyone who compares immigration of today to 60,70, or 80 years ago is a dope to put it lightly. In the age of globalization and treap travel there's no reason to assimilate, or even attempt to. Immigrants today, for the most part, segregate themselves from the larger society. Maybe immigrants in the past benefited from things like the new deal, to say they had it better than the immigrants of today is debatable. The pro immigrant people ignore the negative effects of the countries open borders. Tens of millions of immigrants today work under the table and don't pay taxes while they collect welfare because of their kids, free healthcare, section 8 housing , public schools, etc. We're living in a rapidly changing technological age, while allowing tens of millions unskilled people, if that's not a stupid fucking policy I don't know what is. It's not doctors and engineers coming to the US, but the illiterate and unskilled.