In Spring, the migrants came north, encouraged by improved weather and better life opportunities. The Wall proved no barrier.
There’s little doubt that the migrants were helping themselves to whatever food they could find easily, but rumours spread that they were eating people’s pets. Getting it all wrong, one politician insisted that “In Springfield, they’re eating cats and dogs.”
It was all the encouragement the locals needed. Chanting the Second Amendment in unison, they took up arms against these ‘aliens’. The result was carnage. By September, millions of hawks, kites and falcons had gone the way of the Passenger Pigeon.
There’s little doubt that the migrants were helping themselves to whatever food they could find easily, but rumours spread that they were eating people’s pets. Getting it all wrong, one politician insisted that “In Springfield, they’re eating cats and dogs.”
It was all the encouragement the locals needed. Chanting the Second Amendment in unison, they took up arms against these ‘aliens’. The result was carnage. By September, millions of hawks, kites and falcons had gone the way of the Passenger Pigeon.
