There is this nostalgic view that in the past, things were great, and emigrants move from rags to reach us very quickly. So we find that both parts, in fact, of the rags to reached a story is wrong. They didn't start in rags. Some imigrant groups started actually, even when they first came to the us,. They did better than the us. Bone walkers, and they continue to do well throughout their lifetime. And other imigrants started worse than the native born, and they continued to not catch up 30 years later. Even when they start a poor thcompletely catch up with the children of us. Children of immigrants are being raised in poorer