>>Not really clear on your history. Most were legal immigrants. Knowing that now, do you stand by your post as it is?
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>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.

That may be so, but it's not the argument at hand.