“Conspiracy theories about a secret Mexican plan to reclaim the Southwest are also growing amid the public debate about illegal immigration.”
It’s not a theory.
http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/mecha/archive/plan.html
http://www.aztlan.net/la_gran_marcha.htm
http://www.illegalaliens.us/aztlan.htm
http://www.mayorno.com/WhoIsMecha.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_Aztl%C3%A1n
http://www.umich.edu/~mechaum/Aztlan.html
If any of this rings bells, maybe it’s because our newest Supreme Court justice is a member (albeit the part that has been cleaned up in the past few years to look more respectable) as well as the mayor of Los Angeles.
The prototype separatist bill, supported by Obama and the progressive socialist Democrats, is already moving through Congress and may become law as early as September. The “Akaka Bill” would give Native Hawaiians the right to form a separatist government in Hawaii, supposedly because the sovereign “indigenous” government of the Kingdom of Hawaii was illegally overthrown by the United States (actually not true, but truth doesn’t stand in the way of these measures).
http://akaka.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Issues.Home&issue=Akaka%20Bill&content_id=24
Chicanos (La Raza de Bronze) are then poised to make the same arguments for creation of a Chicano homeland in the Southwest and California, on the ground, that like Hawaiians, they too are “indigenous Native Americans” and had their land taken from them by force in the Mexican-American War. They will point to the Akaka Bill as precedent and demand they be given the same treatment. If the government says no, they will then say they are being denied equal protection with other groups being given special rights as natives. (How to turn the Bill of Rights upside down.)
Kudos for your research and links.
The fact remains that Texas and the lands to to the West were ceded to Texas from Mexico by treaty. The Republic of Texas later sold or gave the lands further West to the US.
Mexico has no legal claim on any of that land.