It would be difficult for several reasons. It requires that the colony have a very reasonable prospect of self-sufficient without the need of relations with the mother planet, that relations being forced for nature, or man is the prime reason ever for trouble.
It means the need of an closed ecology, capable of supplying air, water, food to compensate the inevitable losses to the space, and acomodate the grow of the premises. An closed economy capable of sustaining its inhabitants, with perspectives of grown. It doesnt means thet will be out of contact with the earth, but being capable of sustaining themselves, will put them in a better position with respect to the earth.
If it depends on the Earth for these things for too long a period, (more than 20, 50 or 100 years), the strain on the earth won't be too great, but it will be in the spirit of the immigrants.
Aditionally the costs of seting up a colony in space will be too big whitout an efficient and economic method of getting out of the gravity well (Space elevators being my favorite solution) in earth and in the colony, meaning an very prolonged period to when "the mortgage is paid off". The immigrants eventually will forget the initial costs and only will see the enormous payments that they make. That is a very strong incentive to trouble.