” We are the flop-house of the world.”
We’ve always been the flop-house of the world (think “tired, poor, huddled masses”). It’s just a lot easier for people to get here now.
People were once expected to attempt to dress up as best they could (with charity help available) and look for work once arriving in said “flop house” however.
Now it’s poooooooooor youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu won’t you be our perpetual welfare peeeeeeeeeeeeeets?
Not so....there was almost zero immigration from 1924-1970.
Yeah, but, back then they came ‘yearning to breathe free’, not live free.