@gungasnake,
Quote:The runaway slaves did not represent any sort of a threat to the United States or her people. Illegal aliens do.
What discombobulated thinking!
The USA, the bastion of freedom and democracy, had a federal, ie. national laws, actually laws, in place to describe many situations that were the antithesis of what was supposed to be.
The "aliens", illegal or not, pose the same threat to the US as the commies did, twice, in the 1920s Red Scare and then the McCarthy Red Scare - no threat at all.
Consider the other side of the coin. The USA, the bastion of freedom and democracy, was and has been and is to this day a major threat to poor peoples and poor countries the world over.