Okay righteys! I bet you never complained about sending these illegal immigrants back did you? Remember this page is about common sense! I caaaaaannnnnnnnt heeeeaaarrrrrrr yoooouuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!! 1808 - Foreign Slave Trade Becomes Illegal; 50,000 Slaves Become First Illegal Aliens in the US Slave Ship Wildfire Landed on Key West, FL, Apr. 20, 1860 Source: Harpers Weekly, harpers.org (accessed July 20, 2009) ...the authors of the Constitution... protected the foreign slave trade, a major source of immigration, by prohibiting interference with it for twenty years (Article 1, Section 9). When that period expired, Congress, at President Jeffersons invitation, promptly made that trade illegal, but did not interfere with either the domestic slave trade or slavery itself. The approximately 50,000 slaves smuggled into the United States after 1808 became the first illegal immigrants.
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