[cripplecreek]

I think they just want to take the country over and think it belongs to mexico and still haven’t got over the war

The idiots need to read up on their history. While its true that it used to be mexico and its true that we took it. There was little fighting till we got well into current day mexico and mexicans living here were mostly happy to see American soldiers because mexico left scattered farmers as little more than placeholders.

Its pretty unlikely that they're reclaiming any of their ancestors land because few of their ancestors were ever here.

[WOBBLY BOB]

Bottom line— The Mexicans lost. US troops occupied their capitol in Mexico City and the Mexican government ultimately signed the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. That’s the bottom line.

it was signed in 1848 and allowed the US to take possession of the current US southwest, which the US paid the Mexican government millions of dollars for, and which also guarunteed Mexican citizens who were cauight up in the exchane their property rights in the new territories if they elected to stay. Most did.

The land was very loosley controlled by the Mexican government at the time (with the exception of Santa Fe perhaps and the lower California coast) and mostly empty.

A comparison of the relative prosperity, freedom, and rights, and peace of the two seperate areas today (those lands ceded and the rest of Mexico) tells us which region benefited most.

What the re-Conquista movement is proposing would not only be terrible for the citizens in the areas...it would quite simply lead to a bloody, ut fairly short war...with the same outcome as 1848. property ownership.

This is what’s so humorous about the Reconquista movement; they don’t even know their own history, they’ve just made up something that fits their agenda.