and the talk about all the illegals sometimes ignores the elephant in the room.....there has been a Spanish/Mexican presence here in North America for several hundred years...
Cherry, the whole thing is nonsense, from the U. S. vs Mexican perspective. We have two groups from Europe trying to explain why they belong and the others don’t.
If you study your history, and it sounds like you have somewhat, this situation now is not justified by any claims of the Mexican national.
Mexicans were not prevalent above what is now the Mexican/American border. In fact, the nation Mexico didn’t exist until around 1825, somewhere between there and 1850. The Spaniards were here, not the Mexicans. The native American Indians were here before any of them.
I don’t see any Mexican nationals addressing what was stolen from them. Do you? The large Spanish land grants stole the land from the Native Americans, not the Mexicans.
Borders were set after the U. S. won a war with Mexico. On top of that the United States compensated the Mexican government monetarily with a tidy sum for that time.
Today the CIA Factbook says something on the order of 60% plus of Mexicans have Spanish blood in them.
What is taking place can’t be justified at all.