Do you agree or disagree that the territory of the U.S. Southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico?Agree: 58 percentDo you agree or disagree that Mexicans should have the right to enter the United States without U.S. permission?
Disagree: 28 percent <= *
Not sure: 14 percentAgree: 57 percent
Disagree: 35 percent <= *
Not sure: 7 percent
In that same poll:
When asked “Should the primary loyalty of Mexican-Americans be to Mexico or to the U.S.?” 68.8 percent of respondents said that it should be to Mexico.When asked, “If the U.S. gave permanent legal status to undocumented immigrants (migrantes indocumentados), do you think it would make your friends and family members more likely or less likely to go to the U.S. as indocumentados, or would it make no difference?” 56.2 percent of respondents answered “more likely.”
Truxillo you idiot, culture is the source of wealth.
Just like hated, EXEMPT in Congress who have
self-servingly backstabbed the American people.
From that statement, I infer that he is not aware that Mexico is already part of "North America". Not really surprising though, coming from, "a Chicano studies teacher".
And THIS is what it’s all about... invasion, occupation and annexation.
And because America’s “leaders” are too fearful to stop it, these invaders believe they can execute this strategy with very little opposition. The only exception I take to the idea Mexico wants the Southwest is.. Mexico wants the entire American landmass up to the Canadian border.
“Charles Truxillo, a Chicano studies teacher at the University of New Mexico, pondered the idea of a ‘North America confederating with Mexico in a country that will be predominantly Latino and Hispanic’...”
That probably will come to pass, but in the longer term, the rapidly growing muslim population infesting the upper Midwest will have something to say about that.
"The True History of the Southwest, 101"
The amount of historical idiocy and fallacies surrounding the history of the Southwest is staggering, chief among them the "Aztlan" fairy tales. What's the truth? How did the Spanish Europeans conquer the Southwest? The "conquistadores" (that means "conquerors") did it with the lance, and the lash.
For example, in 1541 Coronado entered present-day New Mexico (which included present-day Arizona during the Spanish era) searching for the "lost cities of gold." One of his first actions upon meeting the natives was to burn 100s of them alive in their dwellings, for not handing over suspected horse thieves. That is how Spain conquered the natives of the present US Southwest--not with hugs and kisses. It was certainly no love-fest between long-lost brown-skinned soul-mates, as it is often portrayed today by the delusional Aztlaners, who spin the "new bronze race of Mestizos" toro-mierda.
By 1821, Mexico City was strong enough to overthrow the even more decrepit and ineffectual Spanish rule. However, the distant provinces of the current U.S. Southwest were far beyond the reach of the authority of the independent but strife-torn government of Mexico City. These distant northern provinces received neither military protection nor needed levels of trade from the south. Under Spanish rule, trade with the USA was forbidden, but at least Spain provided trade and Army protection from hostile Indians. Under Mexican abandonment and neglect, the Southwest received neither trade nor protection from Mexico City.
For example, Comanches and Apaches ran rampant in the 1830s in this power vacuum created by Mexican neglect, burning scores of major ranches that had been active for hundreds of years and massacring their inhabitants. Mexico City could neither defend nor keep the allegiance of its nominal subjects in these regions. Nor did it provide needed levels of trade to sustain the prior Spanish-era standard of living. Mexican governmental influence atrophied, withered and died at the same time that American pathfinders were opening up new routes into the region.
Increasingly, a growing United States of America was making inroads into the Southwest, via ships into California, and via gigantic wagon trains of trade goods over the Santa Fe Trail from St. Louis. The standard of living of the SPANISH in these provinces subsequently increased enormously, which is why they did not support Mexico City in the 1846-48 war. In fact, the Spanish-speaking inhabitants of the Southwest NEVER considered themselves "Mexicans" at all, ever. They went, in their own eyes, from SPANISH directly to AMERICAN. To this very day, if you want a punch in the nose, just call an Hispanic native of New Mexico a "Mexican!"
So how long did Mexico City have even nominal jurisdiction (in their eyes) over the American Southwest? For only 25 years, during which they had no effective control, and the area slipped backwards by every measure until the arrival of the Americans. The SPANISH inhabitants of the Southwest NEVER transferred their loyalty to Mexico City, because all they received from the chaotic Mexican government was misrule, neglect, and unchecked Indian raids.
Since then, how long has the area been under firm American control? For 150 continuous years, during which time the former Spanish inhabitants of the region, now American citizens, have prospered beyond the wildest dreams of the Mexicans still stuck in Mexico. To compare the infrastructure, roads, schools, hospitals etc of the two regions is to understand the truth. The Mexican government has been mired in graft, corruption, nepotism and chaos from the very start until today. The ordinary Mexican peons have been trampled and abused, while only the super-rich elites have thrived. This is why millions of Mexicans want to escape from Mexico today, to enjoy the benefits of living in America that they can never hope to obtain in Mexico.
And because today Mexico is a corrupt third-world pest-hole, (despite having more millionaires and billionaires than Great Britain), we are now supposed to let any Mexican from Chiapas, Michoacan or Yucatan march into the American Southwest, and make some "historical claim" of a right to live there?
From where does this absurd idea spring?
At what point in history did Indians and Mestizos from Zacatecas or Durango stake a claim on the American Southwest? Neither they nor their ancestors ever lived for one single day in the American Southwest. The Spanish living in the Southwest in 1846 stayed there, and became Americans by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. There were no Spanish inhabitants of the Southwest who were marched to the border and driven into Mexico. It didn't happen. The SPANISH in the Southwest welcomed American citizenship, which brought stability, protection from Indian raids, and a vast increase in their standard of living with the increase in trade.
In summary, NO current inhabitants of Mexico have ANY claim on even one single inch of the Southwest!
NOT ONE citizen of Mexico is sneaking into the USA to reclaim property their ancestors were deprived of, NOT ONE.
They are criminal invaders and colonizers, pure and simple.
It's time Americans learned the true history, as a counter to the prevalent Aztlaner fairy tales.
Chicano’s have zero respect in their native countries. They are considered sellouts without a country. Most can’t even speak spanish correctly.
This idiot is literally proposing genocide and he and his like-minded ilk will fail epically because never before in South American history have the people formed a cohesive and benevolent society. What makes them think they can produce good results here without whitey’s kickbacks and welfare?
And therein is the root of the problem.
The illegal immigrants want to take from the tax-payers' bounty, but they don't want to assimilate into the distinct American culture that produced the bounty.
They are parasites that will destroy this great nation by voting for the Demmunist party that steals from the producers to give to the takers.
Cry Baby Boner, dumb as he is, still has to understand this, but since he promotes amnesty Boner is a traitor to the nation.
The poor nations have some of the richest resources out there.
What they don't have is the culture to do anything with them and thrive.
, a Chicano studies teacher at the University of New Mexico
Chicano studies?????
Do they even have real classes and instruction in colleges these days?
Immigrants don’t want to be like white brats in the mall
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I don’t know how “white” people act “bratty in a mall..
but I do see a lot of white looking illegal aliens from Mexico acting bratty in the mall...
It appears they like to be brats just coming here illegally...
Although every time an illegal alien thumbs his or her nose at the sovereign laws of America its not necessarily bratty...
but it is criminal...
bratty would be staying their own side of the border and just making faces at our flag...
And subsequently destroying it.
“The poor nations want to basically overrun the borders and occupy the source of wealth,” he said.
“I don’t necessarily want to be part of their culture. I like the things the Americans have...”
Sure, it’s easier for the have-nots to simply steal from the haves than to build their own culture that will develop wealth.
Conservatives ought to put these words on a TV commercial and run them night and day until people wake up.