Why Was Life Often Difficult For The Newly Arrived Immigrants Even Though It Was A Big Improvement Over Their "old Country"?

It depends a little bit on which time period and which immigrants you are concerned with. In various ports of entry, the new-immigrant ghettos showed a sort of progression from one immigrant group to another. Each group who lived there tended to discriminate against the ones who came later. The customs and language of the new folks were perceived as different from and "less than" the ones here already. Each new group was given the jobs the previous group didn't want--usually with bad and/or unsafe working conditions, low wages, and long hours. Difficulty communicating added to the woes.

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Foreign disease and sickness inherited from the Indians who were here first, hostillaty towards the immigrants from the Indians who were afraid of the white man considering him often a devil, with good reasoning at the time I might add, had to learn what and how to grow here, had to create homes and jobs and establish themselves all pretty difficult I would imagine.

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