You're not really that dumb, are you? At the time of Ellis Island, in the early 1900s, the United States was accepting more than a million immigrants every year.

During that time, specifically from 1900 to 1915, this country went from 76 million people to 100 million people. 15 million of those people were immigrants.

Today, with a population of 330 million people, we only accept 675,000 immigrants per year.

It's an apples to oranges comparison. If this country had only been accepting 200,000 immigrants per year in the early 1900s, there's a good chance your family never immigrates legally because only 1/5th of the actual immigrants would be legal.

If we were keeping pace with immigration standards in the early 1900s, we would be accepting roughly 3 million people every year. So FOH with that shit.

Yes but not everyone can. For some people, doing it legally isn't an option. Also America was already established as a country at that point. I still think it's ironic that a country full of white immigrants that forcefully took this land from the brown people living here are mad that brown people are now "illegally" moving here. We either learn from history or we're doomed to repeat it.

You never broke the rules? Using the “rules” to justify xenophobia is a racist and corny too. Were you a hall monitor in grade school too? Nobody in here gives a fuck if 10,000 immigrants showed up here tomorrow. What are you afraid of?

Yes because legally all you had to do at that time was buy a ticket. There was no visa system. You just went here and hoped for the best.