[melisa99]

Here's a history lesson for the ill informed
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican American war and formalized the conquest and appropriation of half of Mexico's territory into what is now the United States Southwest. The treaty guaranteed Mexican origin people in the appropriated territory "the enjoyment of all the rights of citizens of the U.S according to the principles of the Constitution" (Article IX).
So this Makes California our homeland and the reason we do not look like the Indigenous(NOT INDIANS)people of Mexico and the Southwest is because yes, we can trace our roots to Spain but we can also trace them to the land we are on today. Because our roots are also that of the Indigenous people of Mexico. When the treaty went in to effect some 158 years ago we were the Mexicans you see today.
And let me ask you this can you honestly say that this is your homeland by your comment? If I don't look like in (your words) the "Indians" I'm willing to bet that you don't look like them as well.
Lets think about what we say. Proud to be a 3rd gen Mexican American

[Cecily]

Are you saying that the treaty granted American citizenship to the Mexicans who got absorbed into the United States after the war? If so, those people became Americans. What does that have to do with illegal aliens today who are waving Mexican flags and acting as if they have an automatic right to territory located in the southwest, particularly those who are probably mostly of European origin, and whose ancestors weren't indigenous to Mexico in the fist place? They aren't Americans, and they have no territorial rights to land Mexico lost or sold.