The Absurdity and Barbarity of the “Immigration Debate”: Breaking Free of the “Colonial Framework”

U.S. troops storm the breastworks at Horseshoe Bend – Public Domain

Andrew Jackson led armed forces into what is now Alabama on a homicidal mission against Creek Indians. Refusing to discriminate between the armed and helpless; men and women; adults and children, his agents of genocide murdered eight hundred Indigenous people. It was such a “successful” attack that Jackson feared his military superiors would not trust the veracity of his account. Given the mores and incentives of prevailing...