Imagine yourself as a native american in happy times before anyone else arrived on this continent. When Europeans show up, the natives split....some welcomed and helped the Europeans, some did not and were taking out any European they came across because they were angry and considered it an invasion.

Then came the treaties, promises made and promises broken on behalf of the Europeans. Pioneers kept pushing further into the country of these people. Travelling through their land, helping themselves to their food, leaving their trash along the way. More treaties, more treaties broken.

The natives put up a fight, but the whites kept coming and coming and coming. They did this illegally by breaking treaties. The native leaders said there was a solution, there would be an end to the whites arriving, they would defeat them, etc.....but look who lost in the end.

The native american population of the US now has the highest rate of alcoholism, highest rate of suicide, highest poverty level, and the list goes on. They didn't go down without a fight, but they were just overwhelmed by false promises and the massive number of immigrants. They trusted the politicians who created those treaties....big mistake. Sound familiar? Wonder how things will be in this country in 100 years if there is no enforcement? If amnesty is granted, how many more will come illegally? How will we regulate this when it's not happening now. The government said it would be in the past.....promise broken.

History has a tendency to repeat itself if no lessons were learned and humans become greedy. We know who is greedy....corporate America and the politicians they support. Same thing as profiteers traveling west as pioneers to exploit the lands by mining minerals, etc, that's why treaties were broken.

My grandfather, Cherokee, took his own life. My family knows that it was because he had so many emotions over changes for his people and he could not deal with it any other way. He was forced to change when he had to take jobs in cotton mills here in the south. He was forced to cut his hair and "become a white man" as he put it. His family was thrown off their land in Tennessee by the U.S. Government and they were not paid a penny for it.

When I think of the situation we are in with illegal immigration, I can relate to how my grandfather must have seen things and why he couldn't cope. Are we going to allow this to happen again? Did we learn a lesson? Are we allowing corporate America to continue with this greed?