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willingly as in not because they were forced to flee or prisoners or slaves
And as I pointed out, a lot who went willingly were genuinely seeking a better life.
They weren’t genocidal as your sentence implies.
Anyway, back to the original point: everyone in America is an immigrant or a descendant of one, whether that’s from the original settlers 40,000 years ago crossing the Bering Strait or only a few years ago crossing the Rio Grande.