And at that time, there was nothing in California, nor were any of these so called Mexicans. California was built to what it is today by Americans. We turned an empty, dry, dusty wasteland of nothing into something.
California and everything in it does NOT, and never has belonged to Mexicans who have never lived on these lands.
Just out of curiousity; what would you call the people that lived on the Spanish land grants given by the King of Spain after Mexico's independence and before the treaty of Guadalupe Hildago in what is now California? 27 years (roughly a generation)of non entities?