My ancestors (with one exception 100+ years ago) were not immigrants, they were colonists and pioneers.
Of course your ancestors were immigrants. Maybe not your immediate ancestors, but going back a few generations they were. Unless your ancestors were Tonto and Sitting Bull.
Mine too starting in the 1600s, hacking homes out of a howling wilderness.
My immigrant grandparents came with pasta in their hands :)
The United States is not an immigrant nation. It is no more an immigrant nation than any other nation in world history. Every nation in world history has resulted from migration, but that is not immigration. Immigration is people moving into an established nation. The United States certainly in the past, before the present deluge, has had immigration. I’m still a bit puzzled as to why Jeb Bush has seized on this agenda and will not let it go, as the world goes to hell because of Obama’s policies. According to Jeb Bush, the United States has never really had a native population. Maybe he wants to have everyone forget there ever were Americans, that there ever was an American culture, an American spirit, an American identity. Jeb, does the word “American” offend you?