The article talks about a man who did it legally, who worked hard, made a success of himself, and was grated to this country for the opportunities it offered him.
Unfortunately that description doesn't fit most "immigrants" these days. Especially the "legally" part. My MIL speaks about the efforts made to integrate immigrants after WWII. The schools not only taught reading, writing and arithmetic, but they also taught trades and life skills. They were taught American culture, music, literature, movies, sports. In other words, there was a systematic, organized and mandatory system for intigrating the immigrants into American society.