You just described why immigration is so beneficial and is what built America. I am probably more familiar with the history of the labor movement, especially its violent history here in Ludlow and elsewhere, than you are. If you imagine Rockefeller was going to pay $25 an hour to coal miners, and that the country would be what it is today if he had, you're imagining things. Your Italian ancestors came here to make a better life in the land of freedom and liberty. Each generation builds upon the last. It's the story of America, and this current experience is not very different from the previous ones. They all brought language barriers and crime with them, but we dealt with it. Now that they're brown and black, we the descendants of the earlier waves of poor European immigrants have become the new Know-Nothing Party. Shameful.

By the way, I don't mean literally that you are Italian, I don't know if you are. That was just an example.