So King Henry VIII started the Muslim immigrant invasion of England. Who knew.
There was emigration from the Mediterranean (particularly Italy) in the leadup to Tudor times; these were people either captured off moorish vessels during naval combat, or moorish slave ships, or pirates, or former prisoners of pirates. Shakespeare’s Dark Lady was likely from a family of Venetian Jews who’d entered England during the 16th c.
An incomplete and never-performed play “Sir Thomas More” — the surviving fragment includes the largest single sample of Shakespeare’s handwriting — though superficially about More, is actually about current events, basically street fights between recent foreign immigrants and the native-born lower-class English who competed for the same jobs. Naturally this has been held up by the public scolds of the (currently) living left.