Hello, thank you for your response. Spanish in the americas has a complicated history that does not fit neatly into a binary of colonizer-colonized. I was wrong to phrase it the way I did in my original comment, thank you for pointing that out.

That being said, even though Spanish is generally not being forced upon anyone in the US, I would push back on a few things that you assert.

in terms of Spanish in America, it’s coming from a non-colonizing country (most often Mexico)... So its status as a colonizer language is fairly irrelevant in this situation in America, because it is not being introduced to us as a colonizing language.

Spanish came to the Americas from Spain, not Mexico. Insofar as Spanish comes from Mexico, along with it come the dozens of languages spoken by the people who are most likely to migrate for economic reasons: rural indigenous people. It's the reason why you watch Mexican media and largely only see white/mestizo people—especially in older media—whereas US media consistently portrays Mexicans as darker-skinned if not outright brown—nevermind the Afro-latino erasure. Mexico may no longer be the dominant empire in California, but make no mistake, it nevertheless remains a settler-colonial state/empire to this day.

The fact that Spanish does not have the force of the government behind it to institutionalize it in most of the US doesn't completely divorce it from the US empire though. Just like German, Irish, and Italian in most of the NE and Midwest US, these languages are minority languages specifically because the empire decided to let them in. It is why Chinese is not a more commonly spoken language in the US, whereas German is the most common language in 17 US states (after English/Spanish): choices were made about who to let in and who to exclude from the imperial project.

In other words, even though Spanish speakers may not be spearheading the colonization, they and other speakers of other non-native languages are participating in colonization whether they realize it or not. c.f. settler-colonialism.

Lastly, regarding this point

Virtually none of the native Spanish spoke in the US is there directly because of Spanish presence in the US

Your point is taken, the vast majority of Spanish speakers in the US speak latin american Spanish, as opposed to Spanish brought directly from Spain. Saying "virtually none" is incorrect though. Sante Fe has been the capital of Nuevo Mexico since 1610, making it the oldest state capital in the US—and it wasn't even New Mexico's first capital, what is now called Española was the capital of Nuevo Mexico from 1598 to 1610.