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He should also acknowledge that these immigrants brought along with them criminal sub-cultures which were detrimental to America's development. The immigrant wave of the 1910's brought along with it the era of massive mobster crime in the 1920's and 30's.
Nowadays, we do not need to operate under a naive policy of "bringing everybody in". We have the data, we have the resources, to separate the thugs from the productive citizens, and to acknowledge the harmful elements to an imported culture, such as the formation of Mafias or religious radicalism, and prevent their development.
Considering that the Soviet Union was invading them from the north, and that Allied fire-bombings were causing casualties on a comparable level to the nuclear weapons, I doubt it.
The Japanese were done.
Of course immigration brought criminal elements but we can argue the gangster era was driven by prohibition. Of course we should vet anyone coming into the country that have criminal gang ties etc. The 9/11 terrorists wouldn't fit necessary fit into a typical profile. I believe the leader was a student studying for his masters degree in Europe while recent French terrorists were petty criminals radicalized by radicals in prison.