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Stephen Kessler: Why all Californians are Mexican
Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | 16 November 2014 | Stephen Kessler

Posted on 11/18/2014 12:44:50 PM PST by Regulator

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, which ended the Mexican War and for a cool $15 million acquired what is now the entire southwestern United States — Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and parts of Wyoming and Colorado — from Mexico was an uncannily well-timed moment in U.S. history. Could American negotiators have known that within a year gold would be discovered in California and the flood of Anglo and other immigrants into this state would be the beginning of a population boom still going on 165 years later?

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; california; illegalimmigration; mexico
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Mr. Kessler, recently of Eastern Europe by way of Los Angeles, is of the opinion that This Is Mexico and It's Their Land, Not Yours.
1 posted on 11/18/2014 12:44:50 PM PST by Regulator
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To: Regulator

Mr. Kessler can kiss my a$$


2 posted on 11/18/2014 12:46:19 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: HiJinx; artichokegrower; stephenjohnbanker; 2ndDivisionVet; martin_fierro; Travis McGee

El Ping. A little comic relief from the Treason Crowd.


3 posted on 11/18/2014 12:47:16 PM PST by Regulator
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To: Regulator

California had Spanish settlers mostly ignored by a corrupt Mexican government that claimed a large part of Central America too.


4 posted on 11/18/2014 12:47:30 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: RightGeek

Oh those pesky facts...can’t have that!


5 posted on 11/18/2014 12:48:48 PM PST by Regulator
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To: Regulator; 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; ...
Ping!

Click the keyword Aliens to see more illegal alien, border security, and other related threads.

6 posted on 11/18/2014 12:49:19 PM PST by HiJinx ("Lighten up, Francis...")
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To: Regulator

He must have missed the part when we conquered the Mexican Army and marching into Mexico City to accept Mexico’s surrender.

Mexico belonged to US, but even we realized it sucked, so we gave most of it back.


7 posted on 11/18/2014 12:51:54 PM PST by UNGN (I've been here since '98 but had nothing to say until now)
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To: UNGN
so we gave most of it back

We did better than that - out of Christian guilt we paid them for it, when really there was no reason to.

He implies that the $15 million was chump change but that was actual dollars in 1846 - corrected for inflation it was billions. It helped the Mexican Republic with their debts.

There was opposition to the Mexican War in the U.S. (Lincoln and Thoreau being famous cases) so this was a political sop to them.

8 posted on 11/18/2014 12:55:42 PM PST by Regulator
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To: Regulator
Great.
Does that mean I don't have to pay my steenk'n taxes no more?
Si, se puede! Arriba! (etc, etc...)
9 posted on 11/18/2014 12:56:17 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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"The waves of Mexican (and Central American) immigrants returning to California"

Boolshiite

10 posted on 11/18/2014 12:58:34 PM PST by Ready4Freddy
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To: Regulator

C an we use this logic to force the Indians to take back NY City?


11 posted on 11/18/2014 12:58:35 PM PST by Iron Munro (DHS has the same headcount as the US Marine Corps with twice the budget)
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To: Iron Munro

You forgot the parentheses around “logic”


12 posted on 11/18/2014 1:00:11 PM PST by Regulator
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To: Regulator

I was waiting for him to give a reason why the treaty was invalid. It would have been amusing if that treaty was invalid and the later Gadsden Purchase was OK.

No legal arguments are given. Basically, he is defining Mexcian as a cultural identity, not a legal one. That being the case, we may as well call Californians Spaniards. However, all prerogatives stemming from the Papal dividing line between Spain and Portugal are long gone.

Ahh, poor Mexicans living in the U.S. State of California, betrayed by history and your own people . . . c’est la guerre.


13 posted on 11/18/2014 1:00:32 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
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To: Ready4Freddy

How can ya return to someplace you’ve never been?


14 posted on 11/18/2014 1:00:49 PM PST by Regulator
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So people in California don’t have to pay federal income taxes?


15 posted on 11/18/2014 1:01:18 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Regulator
He implies that the $15 million was chump change but that was actual dollars in 1846 - corrected for inflation it was billions.

Or, five times the size of the Louisiana Purchase. Or was Napoleon forced to sell it off?
16 posted on 11/18/2014 1:01:43 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
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To: Iron Munro

LOL!


17 posted on 11/18/2014 1:01:45 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: Regulator

‘zactly


18 posted on 11/18/2014 1:02:06 PM PST by Ready4Freddy
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To: Regulator

We paid the same amount for the Louisiana Purchase and a bit over $7 million for Alaska.

The government made better deals in those days.


19 posted on 11/18/2014 1:02:20 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Ready4Freddy

“”The waves of Mexican (and Central American) immigrants returning to California””

Yeah, just how can you “return” to a place where you’ve never been in your life? It’s just like how can the term “African American” apply to people who’ve never been in Africa in the first place?


20 posted on 11/18/2014 1:02:50 PM PST by vette6387
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