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As long as you were white.
I’ll quibble over that detail a little. Immigrants that were technically white like Irish were discriminated against. Also, even if you were non-white at the time like Italian you still could have a better shot at a better quality of life than you might have had in the old country.
I mean, they were white by our modern standards but if you read writing at the time, the Irish, Italians, Greeks, etc were often not referred to or considered to be white.
The Irish were also literally fleeing a genocide.
Which I already offered the explanation that they were technically white while not darker skinned like some italians yet still prejudiced against. Ok?