[Modernman]

Please accept a big "Welcome" from me, personally, and we'll see you at the barricades, or should I say barricada? Is that an archaic form of "Got your back, homes?"

Thanks- of course, dealing with the INS makes America seem a lot less attractive sometimes.

"Barricades" is the right word, though, as I'm actually not that exotic- I'm a Canadian.

Both sides of my family were here before the borders became "United States" ones!

That freaks out a lot of Americans- they don't realize that a lot of Hispanics were living in the US before there was a US. A lot of Texans, for example, don't know that about a third of the Texan army during their war of independence was of Mexican origin. Could it be that liberty is attractive to all people?

[TommyUdo]

"That freaks out a lot of Americans- they don't realize that a lot of Hispanics were living in the US before there was a US. A lot of Texans, for example, don't know that about a third of the Texan army during their war of independence was of Mexican origin. Could it be that liberty is attractive to all people?"

Yes. One wonders which version America the heirs of the Anti-Immigrants emigrated to.

My Grandmother (born in 1862!) lived long enough to tell me tales she knew of "Old California."

There were also Mexicans very much in favor of the "Bear Flag" Revolt here in CA, too. General Vallejo, for example.

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Hispanics legally living in the United States are Americans, not Mexicans.