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Mexicans deserve our country more than we do?
Even if we pretend that property ownership is solely based on who got here first or one's race: Mexicans do not deserve our country more than us or the Native American tribes in the United States and here are some, of many, reasons I think why..
First, if you check the census http://www2.census.gov/prod2/statcomp/documents/1931-02.pdf you discover that the total number of Mexicans in the USA in 1930 were 1,422,533 out of a population of 122,775,046 making the percentage of Mexicans here 1.16% of the total US population. This number, though extremely low by today's standards, represented a tremendous growth in the Mexican population in the territory we now call the United States as they had not begun arriving in any number until after the Mexican War of Independence. Consider that in 1848, the non-native population of California is estimated to have been no more than 15,000. It should be obvious there were not a lot of Mexicans here by today's standards before the Southwest became US territory nor afterwards for many years.
In 1954 the US Government purposed to send back 1.2 million of them to Mexico with President Dwight D. Eisenhower stating:
"The rise in illegal border-crossing by Mexicans to a current rate of more than 1,000,000 cases a year has been accompanied by a curious relaxation in ethical standards extending all the way from the farmer-exploiters of this contraband labor to the highest levels of the Federal Government."
The US Government then deported approximately 80,000 Mexican nationals in the space of almost a year with an additional 500,000-700,000 leaving for Mexico before the campaign began. But the US Government didn't do anything to keep them out and so Mexicans flooded back in creating the unhealthy situation we see today.
The reason there were so few Mexicans here even after they overcame the Native Americans whom had been their historical enemies was due to the Spanish custom (inherited from when the Umayyad ruled Spain [Read about the Muslim invasion and their subsequent loss of southern Europe]) of granting large tracts of land to mostly absent landowners. And Mexico mismanaged things so badly under that system that many of the few Mexicans here during that time actually left before California became a state.
Now Mexican mestizos are a combination of Spanish and Amero-Indian from tribes in what we call Mexico today and make up to between 60%-75% of Mexican Nationals (note that full blooded Amero-Indians from tribes in Mexico continue to be oppressed). They have no ancestral claim on any land via the tribes here in the USA. That honor would go to the many Europeans that mix(ed) with the Amero-Indian tribes here. See the tribes here warred into antiquity with the pre-Columbian tribes there, and the post-Columbian mestizos to the point that the languages, cultures, etc.. are different. Even the warrior Aztecs/Mexicas who buried each male's child umbilical cord as a pledge they would live the life of a warrior dedicated to killing and enslaving other tribes and whom were the predominant pre-Columbian indigenous people dominating northern Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest led by Hernan CORTES in the early 16th century never got a foothold here due to the fierce resistance of the northerly tribes here in what we call today the United States of America. As a result, you don't find Federally Recognized tribes in the USA adding Aztec/Mexica or meztizo Mexicans to their tribal rolls. The Indians here do not allow it.
It was only with the advent of Spanish weapons and tactics that Mexicans finally got the upper hand against their ancient enemies and were able to conquer the southernly portion of what now is the USA. And when they did, the Spanish-Mexican mestizo invasion resulted in the deaths of so many (estimated to be as high as 70% of the Native Americans just living in California) just as the original non-mestizo Spanish invasions resulted in the deaths of so many in areas that came under Spanish control.
Finally, Mexico initiated an action that led to the Mexican-American War by attacking a 63-man US patrol in contested territory with a 2,000 man Mexican calvary killing 11 of them. The Thorton affair, as it became known, prompted President Polk to declare that Mexico had "invaded our territory and shed American blood upon the American soil" and war was declared. Mexico lost that war and the land they had once taken by force from the Native American tribes here.
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