And, pardon again-”in the 1700s” should be “before the 1700’s”-they were already in Mexico by the 1700’s, and came to what is now south and west Texas...
There was never 10 million latinos in the western Sunbelt before Ted Kennedy passed his immigration bill.
The southwest only became populated and livable with tens of millions of people when Americans settled there.
Obama believes Arizona territory had enough Latinos to produce 2 million grandchildren today.