The only thing is we've had this very argument before historically. Certain immigrants groups--notably the Irish in the 1840's and the Italians and eastern Europeans at the end of the 19th Century--were really poorly treated during the immigration wave, and I remember reading from American history a lot of Italian immigrants were blamed for a long list of societal ills at the beginning of the 20th Century. (Indeed, the eastern European Jews didn't fare much better; they got harassed by one Thomas Edison early in the 20th Century over control of the early motion picture industry--so much so that when real estate developers in southern California were advertising to sell land in this new-fangled place called
Hollywood, the eastern European immigrants jumped at the chance in no time flat. Just about every famous movie studio in southern California were all founded by eastern European immigrants.)
A more recent example were the Vietnamese "boat people" that ended up in the USA in the 1980's. Disliked for various sundry reasons back then, today they are now a major economic force in California and could really wield their power in California politics soon.
(Indeed, the eastern European Jews didn't fare much better; they got harassed by one Thomas Edison early in the 20th Century over control of the early motion picture industry--so much so that when real estate developers in southern California were advertising to sell land in this new-fangled place called Hollywood, the eastern European immigrants jumped at the chance in no time flat. Just about every famous movie studio in southern California were all founded by eastern European immigrants.)
Was the Edison thing really about race or religion or ethnicity? It looks to me like it was about Edison protecting the patents he thought he had on film technology. Many of the newer producers he was fighting against were Jewish, but so were some of the members of his patent trust.