I always thought America was a great place. During World War II and after it, we opened our doors to refugees, and with a little help and work on their part, they had a new home. They were free to live as they liked as long as they had a job.
America became the mixing pot of all sorts of different people. That`s what makes her so unique and great. The diversity has become one of her strengths.
But things have changed immensely. We now have what we call "the border war" with Mexico. They risk life and limb to come to America, for it is a much better place. And we track them down so we can send them back. All of the ones that make it are now the backbone of America. And Americans know they are here illegally and exploit them because they will work for less than an American will. And we make it really hard for them to become a citizen of America. And here is what really happened.A scant 150 years ago, approximately 50% of what was then Mexico was appropriated by the US as spoils of war, and in a series of land "sales" that were coerced capitalizing on the US victory in that war and Mexico`s weak political and economic status.
A sizable number of Mexican citizens became citizens of the United States from one day to the next as a result, and the treaty declaring the peace between the two countries recognized the rights of such people to their private properties (as deeded by Mexican or Spanish colonial authorities), their own religion (Roman Catholicism) and the right to speak and receive education in their own tongue (for the majority, Spanish). Therefore, the descendants of this population continue to press for such rights, and many hold that theirs is a colonized land and people in view of the fact that their territory and population was taken over by military force.
