[17th Miss Regt]

Arizona was a part of Mexico long before White people stole it."

White people did not steal it. After we had conquered and occupied Mexico, the government of Mexico signed a treaty ceding those lands to the US, for which we paid an agreed sum, some $15,000,000, IIRC.

[Lees Swrd]

I hate to tell these people this but in truth members of my family always owned it as a matter of fact the whole USA so she is still a trespasser no matter how she words it! They may want to hear it again so here it goes it never belonged to meheco !!!!

[muawiyah]

No, way back then we sent in the "black people" to steal it for us. Those were the days of the tale end of the Buffalo Soldiers ~ but nonetheless the United States inherited the British Colonial land claims all the way to the Western Ocean.

There was no Mexico then, just Spain.

I think we paid off the Mexicans to keep our own land just to get them to shut up.

[omega4179]

“The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) specified that the sum of $15 million US dollars in compensation (equivalent to about $380 million in present day terms[22]) be paid to the Republic of Mexico.[23] In 1853 the land below the Gila River was acquired from Mexico in the Gadsden Purchase.”

Besides. it was INDIAN before MEXICANS occupied it.