[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.

[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.