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Great points all, cabdriver.
The more accurate analogy would be:
Fleeing centuries of religious persecution and outright genocide, a small group of undocumented immigrants arrived in North America, and settled in various swampy, deserty, uncultivated areas the size of New Jersey. Greatly outnumbered, the immigrants were tolerated by the local peoples.
Over time, as the numbers of the illegal immigrants grew, the local peoples became intolerant of the immigrants, who differed culturally and religiously from the them, and began to hunt down and kill the undocumented immigrants.
Eventually, the locals threatened the British with massive violence if the immigration was not stopped, and so the British did their best to stop it.
After numerous wars, in which all the tribes of the continent tried to wipe out the immigrants but failed, one by one the tribes negotiated and made their peace with the immigrants, and even sent their ambassadors to the immigrants' capital.
The local tribe, however, did not accept the presence of the immigrants at all. They vowed to wipe out the undocumented immigrants. But eventually, they split, and formed two groups; one intransigent, the other willing to find a way to live with the "illegals."
There, that's much better.
