What they didn’t have in the 1870-1920s...
Excessive welfare benefits: Food stamps, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, free or subsidized housing, race-based higher education...
Woke culture that hates traditional American values of hard work and learning, and a merit-based system.
Belief that rags-to-riches is impossible because of evil white people institutionalized supremacy and racism.
democrat party leadership that hated America and all that she stood for, er, wait, they did have that.
No Kidding!
Immigrants off the boat back then lived 10 to a room in squalid tenements with no assistance.
Today Illegals get $5,000, free health care, free housing, social security, voting rights, free education, travel to New York (well that’s no benefit, but still) and so much more.