>Not really clear on your history. Most were legal immigrants. Knowing that now, do you stand by your post as it is?
Indians were, for the most part, either killed or driven out what was original their own lands, by force. Whether there was a written law at that time is quite irrelevant; the important point is that this is definitely worse than anything that illegal immigrants today do to U.S. citizens.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)