Why did Jacob Riis say the gang is the “ripe fruit of tenement-house growth”?

It was born there, endowed with a heritage of instinctive hostility to restraint by a generation that sacrificed home to freedom, or left its country for its country's good.

there are a number of different ideologies that come into conflict with regard to immigrants and immigration to the us.

answer; /// i do believe that its napolean's conquest of spain;