[melisa99]

You can not be mexican unless you are both Spanish and from one of tribes that lived in the southwest or Mexico. I have no idea what point you are trying to make by the mostly of European origin comment, does that have to do with skin color? Another thing is that illegal aliens were not the only ones that where waving their flags. You really shouldn't assume, many of them were and are American citizens who are just tired of the injustices and stereotypes they face each day because of their heritage. Do we not remember injustices the Irish faced years before,with the same issue? How soon we forget. Another thing I am and everyone in my family is an American citizen but we do not consider ourselves Just AMERICAN, We are MEXICAN AMERICANS.

[Cecily]

The European origin comment is meant to expose the hypocrisy of illegal aliens of European extraction trying to claim that parts of the southwest are their "homeland," as if they have some indigenous right to the territory. They don't, and actual native Americans would probably agree.

If they are illegal aliens, their homeland is Mexico or parts further south until such time as they become legal American citizens.

[Charles Martel]

Another thing I am and everyone in my family is an American citizen but we do not consider ourselves Just AMERICAN, We are MEXICAN AMERICANS.

Just plain ol' American not good enough, for some reason?

[Delta 21]

Theodore Roosevelt on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN

"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907