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Originally Posted by 9th Engineer
Hmmmm, kind of hard to call European immigrants 'illegal' when that term is dependant on a preexisting structure of laws and an actual country to make them, neither of which were here when they arrived.
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Oh my goodness, you are very wrong. There most certainly were governments on this land pre-European migration. The current U.S. government system is based on one of them. Europeans were welcomed by some (i.e. given "legal" status), and rejected by others (therefore, "illegal"). Some were initially accepted, then rejected, and vice-versa. As we can all see, the tradition of rejecting/accepting perceived outsiders has continued throughout U.S. history, up to the present time.