...aka "pilgrims" aka "colonizers", either fleeing all sorts of persecutions, tortures, injustices and tyrannical rulers in Europe, or dumped by them in some far away land already inhabited by native aboriginal nations.

We all know how that turned out for the native aboriginals who had neither their borders respected nor their lives spared.

But the open-border hating bandwagon doesn't say a peep about how their ancestors loved open borders when it suited them.