America was founded by people who wanted freedom? Lol! Your political views are so naive and your historical knowledge is so inadequate, I don't know where to begin. America has two tendencies, religious zeal that has lately warped to the new and most dominant religion, the worship of money and a second historical tendency, the lust for the blood the of outsiders. America was founded by violent settler-colonists who expropriated the land and massacred, genocided and destroyed the original native inhabitants, who were by all human measure overall better people than the settler colonists than replaced them in every facet of human life besides vices like greed, bloodthirstiness, etc.
My family came to this country from Greece in the late 1960's. From what I understand my grandmother's brother came here first, became semi-successful eventually owning his own coffee shop and auto garage/gas station and tried to get the rest of his family to come and largely succeeded, as all of his sisters and their families came and so did his mother. Now if to some extent my grandmother and grandmother were not inspired or persuaded by this tale of "success", maybe they could have objected, and said something mattered to them more than the prospect of more money abroad like that they were Greeks and it meant more to them have their family stay Greek than to make more money in America, or that they wanted to stay in the real community where they grew up and where their family had long roots, rather than move into this or that neighborhood in the USA because they had enough money to.
In as short as possible that is all America is. It is a nation of settler-colonists that attracts new colonists from all over the world motivated by the prospects of more wealth than if they didn't immigrate here. There is nothing noble about it, there was never was and there never will be. America has hundreds of military bases around the world to make sure its settler colonists never have to consume as little as the rest of the world, it is called gunboat diplomacy:
Scientific American said:
Use It and Lose It: The Outsize Effect of U.S. Consumption on the Environment
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“With less than 5 percent of world population, the U.S. uses one-third of the world’s paper, a quarter of the world’s oil, 23 percent of the coal, 27 percent of the aluminum, and 19 percent of the copper,” he reports. “Our per capita use of energy, metals, minerals, forest products, fish, grains, meat, and even fresh water dwarfs that of people living in the developing world.”
He adds that the U.S. ranks highest in most consumer categories by a considerable margin, even among industrial nations. To wit, American fossil fuel consumption is double that of the average resident of Great Britain and two and a half times that of the average Japanese. Meanwhile, Americans account for only five percent of the world’s population but create half of the globe’s solid waste.
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Even the citizens of other centuries long blood sucking imperial powers like the UK or Japan, pale in comparison to our over-sized consumption.