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>Those immigrants who came here did so because they did not agree with what was occurring in the country they lived in. I would suggest this is the reason we as a nation have many points of view. There is good and there is bad. Some people cannot tell one from the other. The majority rules - sometimes. In the end it is the Federal Courts that rule our nation.

That and the fact that many were shipped off to the colonies as punishment instead of prison... Our country was probably built more by criminals than individuals and dissidents....