Nearly four centuries after the Mayflower set sail, the world is still full of pilgrims men and women who want nothing more than the chance for a safer, better future for themselves and their families, the president says.
Here is one of the stories of the Pilgrim experience not often taught :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pequot_War
The Pequot tribe numbered 8,000 when the Pilgrims arrived, but disease had brought their numbers down to 1,500 by 1637. The Pequot War killed all but a handful of remaining members of the tribe.