ebrown_p wrote:After the civil war, we realized the only way to truly end the conditions of slavery, was to make sure that everyone in the country was able to become a citizen.
Citizens don't make good slaves. This is why we passed the 14th amendment.
At the time there were many who wanted to send all of the former slaves "back to their country". But those who were in favor of granting citizenship won out, and our country has done quite well since then
There are about a dozen gaping holes in that line of argument. One is that many if not most of the people we're talking about don't WANT to become US citizens; they want to take over sections of US territory via demographics and incorporate them into a "Greater Mexico" in much the manner in which Albanians try to do the same thing in Balkan countries.
The idea of Anglos having "taken" the southwest states or Ca. from Mexico by the way is ludicrous. They never HAD those territories. Hispanics had only had 300 years to settle California before the Anglos arrived, and Anglos would not have been able to just walk into a settled region. There was nobody there at the time other than a few coastal Indians.