Will Mexico take back all the land the USA stole from them ?
442486
Umm...no.  First of all, the United States has never stolen any land from Mexico.  We won a few wars.  We made the peace agreements.  Mexico legally signed their lands over to us.  And this all occurred close to 150 years ago.\n\nThe notion that they're going to take Texas and other Southwestern states "back" is ridiculous.  People are coming over the border to find work as there is very little in Mexico.\n\nAnd, even for a minute, the Mexicans are trying to take land "back" from the US, we would declare war on them before any of that would happen.  And then they would lose and they'd finally stop complaining.\n\nI don't think anyone should worry about that though, as the Mexican government can't seem to do anything correctly, anyway.
800908
I don't want to take ANYthing from ANYbody. What I'd REALLY like to see everybody do is roll back down to Mexico, take what they've learned in OUR country, and apply it. Mexico's SOOOO close to being able to stand up and do the Right Thing, here, and take care of their own. They mainly just have to decide that they've GOT to do it, and get it done. There's no reason on god's green earth that they couldn't just get home, set up, and MAKE a lot of good things happen, just I don't think they really want to leave. If they'd do that, then they'd really and honestly be helping all the poor people that come running in every year, and that's how we end up at chapter 432 of a very boring, very predictable soap opera called The History Of The US/Mexico Border.\nI support helping Mexico, but helping Mexico to Do Right, which is to get their own economy going, to get their own infrastructure built, to take their own initative, and to do that instead of everybody just bolting for the United States. \n\nPeople commit crimes mainly because they've run out of other options. Some truly are maniacs, and incorrigibles, and they deserve a seat in the Big House. But, if people could make it on their own, likely they'd never get involved in all this garbage to begin with. Unfortunately, a lot of people have gotten involved in crime, because it DOES pay, at least it does the way we've been maintaining our borders these last 20 years. So, you tune up the borders, make em right, and I think you'll see a lot of stuff go away that was happening before. I think we also need to localize manufacturing. It's more efficient if you're not shipping stuff 1/2way around the world etc. You get americans producing goods for americans IN america, mexicans producing goods for mexicans IN mexico, so forth, and so on. Import raw materials etc., but other than that localize your manufacturing so as to lessen transport costs, fuel usage, and so forth. In an efficient economy, in theory at least, there wouldn't be all that much imports etc., because you'd be making what you need/use locally.\nWhat we have now is inefficient, imagine in the case of the illegal aliens if your 'commute' was 700 miles or more.\n\nMexico's GOT a 1 trillion dollar economy. That's very positive.\nBut, they need to figure out how to BOOST it, legally, to the point where they can really start investing in the things that'll support all their people.  \n\nThere's a lot of problems with today's status quo, the best fix for the ones between our country and mexico and canada would be to fix the borders. Do that, and I think a lot of other things will straighten themselves out, too.\n\nI'm against illegal immigration, period. If you're in the country illegally, that's criminal trespass, right there. But, as long as businesses keep hiring people in violation of the law, people will come seeking jobs. So, stop the illegal hiring, make it really really hard to get into the country illegally to begin with, and you'll have fixed some things. \n\nThe world isn't perfect, and there's no magic wand to wave over other people's problems, or our own for that matter. Comma. There are some fundamental basic principles that can be successfully observed and applied, and one of those is that spending 1/2 your energy just getting to work is pretty wasteful.\n\nI support helping Mexico, but in much more structured ways, \nthey have a big cement company, cement can pour foundations for homes, they have many people seeking work, they've got money, like I say what I think is lacking is the will to do it. \nThe border fence kind of has one purpose, to help them find the will to do for themselves, and not have every one of their problems have the common answer of 'get it from the United States'. Mexico's even got minerals etc. They really CAN do it for themselves. \n\nI hope
1144557
it is only going to take twenty years for the mexicans to destroy our country.  they're like a plague of locusts.  they go from town to town eating everything they can find, and stealing everything that is not bolted down.
779658
I agree\nI think the Americans should leave all the lands they stole from others!!!
659136
Hey thewanderer862004.  I think you need to read up on American history.  The US did attack and capture Mexico City, but we gave it back because it was 2 weeks after the end of the Mexican-American war in 1848.\n\nHowever, The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war and gave the U.S control of Texas, California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming.
405280
baby_balla_gaby, Chell, spd2romero@s... and latin_hussla all need to go back to school and learn something. For starters the USA bought the land from the Mexican government and not steal it. Yes our ancestors who came here took the land from the Native Americans living here at the time. All civilization came up form the Africa and Middle East regions and spread throughout the world. Asians did come across from Siberia to what is now Alaska a long time ago. So many of you really need to go back to school yourselves. Majority of the people who live in north America today are dececndts from either the Spanish and Europeans. The Native Americans were here centuries before but their ancestors came from Asia. \n\nIt seems to me that many of the people supporting illegal immigrants want to get rid of all laws in this land and everywhere else. Tell me I am wrong here but it is the truth. Like what was said before their were no laws in the land until the mid to late 1800’s. So you can’t argue about the past but you need to start thinking about the future. If the Mexican people rely on the money that their relatives send home then they are making their lives worse every day with that mentality. Instead of  going to the US for a better life why don’t you work on getting your government to fix your economy and not rely on someone’s else.
489136
Unfortunately or not, illegal immigrants can't claim the land that is no more theirs by now, after 158 years. And there hadn't been trapped any Hispanic population in the US after the Mexican Cession, so this 'ancestry lark' is on infirm footing. This situation reminds me of a very bitter period of Hungarian history right after WW1, when Hungary was ripped apart by other bordering countries and the diplomatic corps of the winner nations, and was reduced to its one third, so it lost 72% of its total area, by courtesy of the Treaty of Trianon in 1920. These annexed parts form the bulk of Slovakia, a large segment of Romania (Transylvania) and knobs of Slovenia, Austria, Croatia and Serbia. 64% of Hungary's population found themselves outside the hamstrung homeland. Still, we can't assert our rights to the lost areas, though 5 million of our fellow Hungarians still live beyond the borders and we don't plan 'reoccupying' these areas.  I think Mexicans go overboard, compared to this example. And the problem is that the Mexican government doesn't give a hoot to stop the exodus of illegal immigrants to the US, thus the States is to swallow the bitter pill.
423003
I must say i love your questions, but i really dont know. but i would bet its a mexican conspiracy to take over the united states. illegals must go home.
647210
Apparently not, they want to extend it until they get to Canada. They are always saying that their land was stolen, if they like so much history then they should remember that the Aztecs conquered most of central America, and in their temples they killed thousands pf prisoners.By the way, I'm tired of hear about " La raza", not because most people down USA speak Spanish, make them the same, and then they want to receive all the benefits. Among all the Hispanics countries Mexican re known for the terrible way they treat other Latino-Americans, they beat them up and take them back to the border with Guatemala , after the steal all the have on them, they got thousands of Cubans that have landed there looking for freedom on their way to USA.They even threat the economy , if you ask me , you don't ask for souls at gunpoint.
595196
Will the Mexican invaders pack up and go back to Mexico from having a guilty conscience ? \nNo, no guilty conscience.\n\nWill Western Union stop bleeding the Great U.S.A. by sending money to Mexico ?\nNo, it is great business for them.\n\nWill Vicente Fox share his wealth ?\nNo way, actually the children of his wife are stealing even more than him, and no, they won't share either.\n\n Will Mexico stop being poor and corrupt ? \nYes. If there is cooperation with the US, this can happen in six years.\n\nWill Mexicans stop speaking the language of the people that conquered them ? \nWe are mixed, we will speak both Spanish and native dialects.\n\nWill a border be built that is serious about security ? \nNo.\n\nWill President Bush not be influenced by his Mexican born sister in law ?\nNo.\n\n Will the U.S.A. grow up and have a real immigration policy ?\nNo.\n\n Will the U.S. have a non Hispanic attorney general ?\nNo, for the next three years.
624702
I think Texas thinks it already is. I guess America could allow it to revolt and then destroy it, and just take it back.
250003
I think they will never return the lands they "negotiated" away from yours and many other tribes.  I do think the USA has to make the situation right, by providing more than money and casino operations.  \n\nThe poverty and mistreatment of our Native Americans is the deepest and dumbest wound on the face of our country.
696038
Yes, of course they should pay for them to go back, but that will never happen, there is also a chance the country would'nt even except them back, like what happened to the boat full of Chinese we just sent back this summer, China refused to take them back.  Do you really think Mexico would take back people that are making the country even richer than it is already, hell no.\nI'm in the greenhouse growing industry and I've worked with hispanic's for almost 15 years.   \nThey are smug and arrogant and know they are thought of as better than the citizens of this country.  Our government tell them this everyday, they have perks and incentives to keep coming over.  If I hear one more person say what hard workers, family oriented people thay are, I'm going to throw-up.  I know how they are and who they are, and what they respect, which is vertually nothing, they do'nt even sell dog food or cat food in their grocery stores, they do not know how to use a toilet, they can't drive, I've been hit by a hispanic and he left the scene, did the cops hunt him down, no!!!!!!!!  Everyday on my job, on the road, and in my neighborhood I am violated, and this I hate our GOVERNMENT for.  Please do not worry about who will pay to get these law breakers home, no one is going to send them back, they come and go at their own free will and will as long as America is America.
369848
No.  After the Mexican-American war Mexico ceded most of the land that makes up New Mexico to the United States.  The rest of the territory was purchased from Mexico (the Gadsden Purchase) around 1853.  The land remained a U.S. territory until New Mexico became a state.\n\nBTW, I think Billy the Kid was from New York originally anyway, so for him it's a moot point.
954866
Well, Mexico used to own everything south of Washington state....
142892
Not at all, it shouldn't.\nIn fact, if it's been condemned by European countries, and Canada, Mexico shouln't have any other position about it.\nAltougth, we have to be very carefully about dealing on this matters because the dificulties on the Mexico-USA relation have been having on the last times.
596754
20 more years and Mexicans will finish the invasion. Learn Spanish now, people.. you'll need it to fight for the few jobs Mexicans won't want to do.