When people are poor enough and desperate enough to flee their homes, there are usually gangs. We still take in "your tired, your poor".
If you look at the stereotypes around Latinx immigrants, they're very like the stuff that was said about Irish immigrants back in the day, and about Chinese immigrants too. The Nativist fear doesn't change; people's need to immigrate doesn't change; the way that the immigrants work and save and raise their children as Americans doesn't change.