it’s hard to compare modern immigration to someone’s great-grandfather showing up in 1910 because the actual rules are completely different. people treat the ellis island era like it’s the end all be all, but it just isn’t. it was one moment. and short one. the system we have currently isn’t some ancient, permanent structure. it’s not what granpappy patricks experience. it’s recent, and it was built with very specific goals in mind. for some extremely simplified and brief his