This country is founded on “illegal” immigrants. A lot of my ancestors came to this country from England almost 400 years ago in the 1600s and all their farms were on land taken from Native Americans. Throughout the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, Native Americans were swindled out of millions of acres and land hungry settlers and immigrants swarmed across the continent pushing many Native Americans onto reservations in the least desirable land. Large areas of the west coast and the southwest were taken by force form Mexico.
In some ways, there is some poetic justice in the Mexicans coming back legally and illegally to the areas taken from their country in the 19th century.
America-hating nonsense.
Most immigrants to the U.S. before the recent “no borders” policy came here legally.
Most land taken by settlers was uninhabited. My state is a good example of that. The native population in the Ozarks, where I live, had been wiped out by the Osage, who came from the north. The Osage wanted it for a hunting ground. Kentucky was the same way, virtually uninhabited because Ohio Valley tribes wanted it as their hunting preserve.
Much of the U.S. was nearly uninhabited by Indians. Some of it was due to disease. The cities along the Mississippi noted by Desoto’s chronicler had disappeared by the time the French missionaries went up that river 200 years later. Some of it was due to the nature of the land. The Great Plains were nearly uninhabited until some of the tribes got horses. Until then, the only Indians there were a few in the river valleys. Buffalo and other wild animals roamed virtually unmolested because Indians couldn’t run them down until the horse.
Even after the horse, the plains population was very scanty and there were few fixed villages.
And some of the tribes didn’t do too badly in Oklahoma, particularly the Osage (who moved there voluntarily) whose land is rich in oil.
There were virtually no Mexicans north of San Antonio when the Anglo settlers came into the vast area claimed by Mexico but not inhabited by Mexicans. And even San Antonio and much of northern Mexico was becoming depopulated by Comanche attacks. Mexico invited the Anglos in because of that depopulation. The Anglos later declared their independence, not surprisingly.
Mexico took what it had from Spain. But most of it wasn’t even mapped or explored, let alone inhabited by Mexicans.
And Mexico fired the first shots in the Mexican-American War, not Americans.
There won’t be any “taking back” American land by Mexico. How many Mexican-Americans really want to be ruled by Mexican government? Besides, a lot of the illegal Hispanic immigrants are Central Americans and Mexican Maya, who don’t get along with “La Raza” Mexicans anyway.
