The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation during the 1830s of Eastern Woodlands Indians to areas west of the Mississippi River. Estimates based on tribal and military records suggest that approximately 100,000 indigenous people were forced from their homes during this period, which is sometimes known as the removal era, and that some 15,000 died during the journey west. The term Trail of Tears invokes the collective suffering these people experienced, although it is most commonly used in reference to the removal experiences of the Southeast Indians generally and the Cherokee nation specifically.
I have no empathy for those who complain of so called undocumented people who enter and immigrate within the United States. Neither the federal or any state government have any moral standing to exclude other people from domiciling with their territories.
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