@#16:
"In the 1800s and early 1900s, laws only limited immigrants with certain individual attributes, rather than all people above a certain annual numerical threshold. An 1875 law banned those suspected of being prostitutes. The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act barred most new Chinese immigrants. The 1891 Immigration Act barred polygamists, people with contagious diseases, people convicted of crimes "of moral turpitude," and those likely to become a "public charge" by depending on government assistance. A 1903 law barred anarchists and others, including beggars. Still, the vast majority of Europeans who reached the United States were granted entry; the U.S. Immigration Service excluded only 1 percent of the 25 million Europeans who arrived between 1880 and World War I."

October 28, 1886 - Statue of Liberty erected in NY.
In 1903 "The New Colossus Plaque" was placed on the inner wall of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

So if you mean "entering legally" is wide open gates for anyone from Europe you'd be right. Not much work to do. Today you have to be granted an asylum hearing.

If you actually cared about any of this, though, you'd have pushed for the immigration bill the Lankford worked so hard on that gave you everything you've been asking for for years and more. Like more immigration courts and officers.

A lot of things have changed since the 1800s

And yet you cited that period and then got what happened wrong.

You believe nonsense.
Can't help you with that.
You have the power to deprogram yourself, though.
It takes a choice.
A choice so many are making these days.

Speaking of the smell of desperation, gotta say, seeing a trumper creating "sequitorium" was entertaining. Kind of reminded me of "santorum." Unintentional as it was.