Today people are complaining about the unfairness of helping present families who have immigrated here illegally years ago. Yesterday Mexicans complained about the unfairness of illegal US immigration on their western territory. It was a case of one free sovereign nation breaking laws of another free sovereign nation that ended up as war.
Dear Ones,
When President James Polk was in office he committed illegal take over of western lands through sheer provocation against Mexico on behalf of Texas and other indigenous land.
The original border between the United States and Mexico was the Nucces River. During Polk's Manifesto the line changed to the Rio Grande River, that went through Texas. He then put boots on the ground to take over western territory forcefully and brutally. Remember also the Alamo in the Texas Revolution of 1836.
Lying that the Mexicans shot first, Polk declared war that brought about masses of illegal people ravaging indigenous property. First Americans were cheated out of their land again–business as usual–just as American corporations stole Hawaii from the native people with corruption used against the queen.
During the Mexican War of 1846-48 people were even more upset than they are today due to how unfair it was. People of American Indian and Spanish descent (miscegenation)–intermarriage between two different nationalities–were victims–friendly neighbors.
Some of the strong voices against the US illegal immigrants invading and occupying Mexico were Congressman Abraham Lincoln, General U.S. Grant, Horace Greeley and even Polk's own soldiers he sent to invade Mexico. Colonel Hitchcock of the 3rf Infantry regiment said "the US is the aggressor and that we had no right to invade Mexico, which was obvious.
John O'Sullivan, editor of a New York newspaper, in 1845 coined the term "Manifest Destiny" meaning–providence or "God" willing this Mexican unjust immigration. As the Hebrew Bible proclaims, "There is no justice under the sun."
"Those who don't remember their history remain children all their lives."–Cicero
Mame,
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