Immersive limit of embeddings is injective on the interior?

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$\newcommand{\pl}{\partial}$ $\newcommand{\M}{\mathcal{M}}$ $\newcommand{\N}{\mathcal{N}}$

Let $\M,\N$ be smooth compact, connected, oriented manifolds of the same dimension. $\M$ can have a boundary.

Let $\,f_n:\M \to \N$ be a sequence of smooth orientation-preserving embeddings, which converges uniformly to a smooth immersion $f:\M \to \N$.

Is it true that $f|_{\M^o}$ is injective? ($\M^o$ is the interior of $\M$).