So many pro-immigration point to the early 20th century as a success story regarding the flood of european immigrants to America and the resultant melting pot.

The problem is, it's a total lie. What they leave out is that it was almost one-for-one immigration back and forth across the ocean - europeans would come to America to make thier fortune, fail, and then go back, automatically weeding out all the loosers.

We no longer have that. We haven't had that since post-ww2, if I'm being very fucking generous.

People were allowed to flood in because they never realized 'give me your tired, hungry, poor' was blatant lies and propaganda.

The only way immigration works is if you have some way to get rid of all the loosers. Otherwise, you get where we are now.