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My grand parents worked for it, they didn't demand it. And no it wasn't. Every read about early 1900s immigrants and what hoops they were made to jump through. Hell, the even spelled my fathers name wrong and told my grand parents "too bad" its the American spelling now.
The hoops aren't the issue, the numbers are the issue. They didn't sit in Italy waiting for citizenship to open up for 10 years. They took a boat over because the US demanded labor and jumped through processing hoops. There's a very big difference between the ridiculousness of late 19th century early 20th century immigration processing and our current system where we just don't let people in. Do you think those people south of the border wouldn't jump through any hoops possible? If we had an immigration processing center such as Ellis Island though would go through that route to become citizens, instead they are just straight up told there's no room for them.