Well that was before all the social programs we have currently. Before you were welcome, but you were also on your own, there was no social security, SNAP, etc. Most people that I know who are for limiting immigration point to that. And they have a point. I happen to think that immigrants create wealth though, they don't swallow it up on the whole.

You believe immigration reduces the bonds of kinship? That it erases the millenia of shared history from before they immigrated?