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Most First and Second Class passengers who got off the ships at Ellis Island were allowed through without inspection because of a society issue. These passengers were deemed fit for citizenship just because they could afford to pay the higher fees for crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Many Americans have resented immigrants throughout American history because they believed that immigrants were taking jobs by offering to work for less money. The irony of the situation is that many of those people were immigrants or their parents were immigrants at some point.
Nativists believed that the U.S belong to those who were born in the U.S. They disliked immigrants
If you want to be technical about it, yes. The first humans to permanently live in the USA were the Native Aboriginals, who were descendants of Siberians nomads. Beyond that, the USA was later colonized by Britain (as well as France and Spain to a lesser extent), meaning that immigrants from those countries (and imported slaves from Africa) began to permanently inhabit the USA. Today, the USA welcomes thousands of immigrants from around the world. Thus, the USA was "built" by immigrants from all over the place.
Those who came to the United States as immigrants between 1492 and and late 1940s all came by boat. After the late 1940s more and more could come by airplane. since the 1960s, virtually every immigrant has come by airplane, except for those who walked or drove across a border between two countries in America.