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Too many innaccuracies to name, but I will point out a least one:

Mexician Land and water rights and property titles WERE recognized and upheld by the US courts, as part of the treaty settling the war, and, in fact, continue to be upheld by US courts to this very day. A case was recently settled in SE Colorado reaffirming the rights of the decendants of Mexican settlers to gather wood and water on private ranch land. They claim was based on their historical use of the land, dating from the Mexican Occupation. They won. It's not an isolated incident; many such claims have been recognized throughout the SW.

Quite a bit of the territories were PURCHASED by the US as part of a willing exchange with Mexico. All the territory ceded as a result of the War was paid for by the US, to the tune of $15 million, way more than it was worth at the time, being largely unsettled and barren. Some later territory was bought outright; like the GAdsen Purchase of Arizona, which came well after the war. How dare they say we took it ??

That being said, it's not really going to matter as possession is 9/10 of the law, and our gubmint is not going to stop it, right or wrong.