Before we had the Mexican there was American that built this country?
612885
before the Mexican there was Italian, Chinese, Irish, Ger amen, Russian, etc. And don't forget the Africans we forcible brought here. And no one is leaving.
796395
That would be a mex a sal.  an american born between a mexican and a salvadorian.
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.
636832
Who do you think paid for all the equipment, research & development and technology to get the oil out of Mexico. The USA, correct, here ya go Mexico, pump it out... we'll even buy it.  NAFTA, here ya go Mexico, jobs Americans once held, now belong to you. Mexicans, like the people of Iraq, like US people collecting welfare, need to do it themselves.  We can't do it for them even if we wanted to.  \nA person appreciates the fruits of their own hard work more than something given buy another.  We hold ourselves to this standard everyday, but don't or have less faith in non-Americans, or poor Americans.\nMexicans to often state the "we are all immigrants or decendents of", yes true.  However, name one other group of immigrants who harbored such pride for their home country after setting foot in the US, like the Mexicans.  Mexico is  worse than most countries our ancestors came from.  I was born in the US, my ancestry is from France, if I grew up with my parents telling me France was better, I'd be like "then why the hell are here"?  "I'm American now, I can't go back to France?"  Real parents wouldn't do that to their children.  Mexicans are being selfish, they won't even let their kids, who are Americans, be American.  Three generations of totally confused Mexican-American kids.  We are all from different places, but the thing that Unites us is that we are American.  We all come from different places for an opportunity like no other.  A place you can make your great idea a reality.  A place where creativity is encouraged.  A place you can live how you want to live so long as it's not harming others who want to do the same, including parts of nature.  A place you have to make a sacrefice for inorder to gain something you consider greater, like a dangerous boat ride or a cut on a barbed wire fence. Big or small the risk was worth it to make, not receive, something better.  If you came here expecting a gift, your in the wrong place.  This is not the "Easy way out country", this is the land hard work and determination.  This is not the "they have more, so they should take care of me" hangout.  Some have it easier than others, but if you get the tougher road, only the weak turn back.  Some have it easier because someone before them worked hard.    \nWhy do Americans feel we need or have the ability to fix other countries? We are the youngest country, Mexico has been around longer than us.  They kicked out Spain & France who probably treated them better than the current gov.  That's why I can't understand "Mexican Pride" in the US, or in Mexico.  Cinco de Mayo represents the day they defeated the French, but the French less than 6 months later took it back.  What can you be prowd of then or now?  Holding the title "Most corrupt government" or "Don't drink the water there", come on.  If they really had pride, they would do everything to better Mexico.  If Mexicans had pride, they wouldn't be F-ing over other Mexicans, cops wouldn't be hustling $50 bucks from every US visitor, people in the country would be pissed with those who flee, those who flee wouldn't be so damn prowd of the place they fleed from.  It's crazy.  12mil prowd Mexicans could go back to Mexico and with others in Mexico, turn Mexico around, instead they will hinder Mexican-Americans from making progress in America.  We know you'd rather wave the Mexican flag, I felt bad seeing you wave the Stars and Stripes, because you were advised to.  Go back to Mexico and set a goal, do the jobs Mexicans aren't doing.  It'll be tough, but not trying will guarantee a life of wondering "What if?"  \nWatch Braveheart...
465349
person who named America
1047745
Absolutely!! Americans lives have never depended on any MEXICANS. We can and WILL get the job done, always have. We have NEVER as a country fallen into despair due to a lack of work ethics!!
592670
hahaha good question. Without Mexicans and other Hispanics most hard jobs in America wouldn't get done! They deserve respect and admiration!!!!!
765404
I don't know where he was born, but the US owned Panama for the longest time.  He was probably born there as a military brat.  If he was born on a military base, he was born on American Soil.
546632
What history book did you read?  Texas won their independence from Mexico and then asked the United States to annex them.
134629
at the moment only the good ol' USA is named United States.\nbesides the mexico example you mentioned, I don't know any others that were called United States in the past.
107068
If it was it was stolen by Texans.  Texas won it's independence in 1836 and was the Texas Republic until 1845 when it joined the Union.  The Mexican-American War was not until after that.  Lincoln's single term in the U.S. Congress was from 1847-1849.  If it can be said that we stole any lands from Mexico as a result of the settlement of a war, could it not be said that Mexico had itself stolen these lands from Spain?  Then of course we all know who had them before that and had it stole from them as well.  Are we now trying to rewrite history books to make them politically correct without stepping on anyone's toes?
639666
i guess you don't know your MEXICAN HISTORY!\n\n\n\n\nThe 5th of May is not Mexican Independence Day, but it should be!Mexico declared its independence from mother Spain on midnight, the 15th of September, 1810.  And it took 11 years before the first Spanish soldiers were told and forced to leave Mexico. \n\nSo, why Cinco de Mayo?  And why should Americans savor this day as well?  Because 4,000 Mexican soldiers smashed the French and traitor Mexican army of 8,000 at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City on the morning of May 5, 1862. \n\nThe French had landed in Mexico (along with Spanish and English troops) five months earlier on the pretext of collecting Mexican debts from the newly elected government of democratic President (and Indian) Benito Juarez.  The English and Spanish quickly made deals and left.  The French, however, had different ideas. \n\nUnder Emperor Napoleon III, who detested the United States, the French came to stay.  They brought a Hapsburg prince with them to rule the new Mexican empire.  His name was Maximilian; his wife, Carolota.  Napoleon's French Army had not been defeated in 50 years, and it invaded Mexico with the finest modern equipment and with a newly reconstituted Foreign Legion.  The French were not afraid of anyone, especially since the United States was embroiled in its own Civil War. \n\nThe French Army left the port of Vera Cruz to attack Mexico City to the west, as the French assumed that the Mexicans would give up should their capital fall to the enemy -- as European countries traditionally did. \n\nUnder the command of Texas-born General Zaragosa, (and the cavalry under the command of Colonel Porfirio Diaz, later to be Mexico's president and dictator), the Mexicans awaited.  Brightly dressed French Dragoons led the enemy columns.  The Mexican Army was less stylish. \n\nGeneral Zaragosa ordered Colonel Diaz to take his cavalry, the best in the world, out to the French flanks.  In response, the French did a most stupid thing; they sent their cavalry off to chase Diaz and his men, who proceeded to butcher them.  The remaining French infantrymen charged the Mexican defenders through sloppy mud from a thunderstorm and through hundreds of head of stampeding cattle stirred up by Indians armed only with machetes. \n\nWhen the battle was over, many French were killed or wounded and their cavalry was being chased by Diaz' superb horsemen miles away.  The Mexicans had won a great victory that kept Napoleon III from supplying the confederate rebels for another year, allowing the United States to build the greatest army the world had ever seen.  This grand army smashed the Confederates at Gettysburg just 14 months after the battle of Puebla, essentially ending the Civil War. \n\nUnion forces were then rushed to the Texas/Mexican border under General Phil Sheridan, who made sure that the Mexicans got all the weapons and ammunition they needed to expel the French.  American soldiers were discharged with their uniforms and rifles if they promised to join the Mexican Army to fight the French.  The American Legion of Honor marched in the Victory Parade in Mexico, City. \n\nIt might be a historical stretch to credit the survival of the United States to those brave 4,000 Mexicans who faced an army twice as large in 1862.  But who knows? \n\nIn gratitude, thousands of Mexicans crossed the border after Pearl Harbor to join the U.S. Armed Forces.  As recently as the Persian Gulf War, Mexicans flooded American consulates with phone calls, trying to join up and fight another war for America. \n\nMexicans, you see, never forget who their friends are, and neither do Americans.  That's why Cinco de Mayo is such a party -- A party that celebrates freedom and liberty.  There are two ideals which Mexicans and Americans have fought shoulder to shoulder to protect, ever since the 5th of May, 1862.  VIVA! el CINCO DE MAYO!!
55359
MMMMM... Here in Mexico, USA enter in two points in the history classes:\n- The 13 colonies, what was it, and what they decided to revolt.\n- the mexican-american war... here teachs that all the texas stuff was a stratagem of the USA's gov to get the northen states of México 'cause they needed it for build the trnascontinental railroad. \n-the IIWW, being "the good ones".\n\nalso something about the pancho villa's raid in columbus, but with reason (american army was attacking the revolutionaries in the north of mexico, crossing the border.)
197914
Yes.\n\nNative Americans were a part of this great nation long before the English took over. Native Americans proudly established communities that promoted togetherness and unity and respect for the land.
994211
Wow, you really need to go back and study history.  \n\nThe Spaniards conquered the Aztecs in Mexico at about the same time that the English Colonies were starting in the North East.  \n\nThe Mexicans are the descendants of the Spaniards and Aztecs (as are most of the South American Continent.)  That is why they speak Spanish.    \n\nAmerica never stole land from the Mexicans.  We stole land from the American Indian (Native Americans).  Texas was at one point part of Mexico, but it won it's Independence on it's own and became an independent sovereign nation.  Later of course Texas citizens voted to become part of the US.
298121
HELL NO!! No rights, no amnesty, DEPORTATION~~ with fines!!\n\n To those who think the ILLEGAL immigrants BUILT this country, "You are either a moron or you are terribly misinformed." \n\nOur country was BUILT by OUR forefathers: Native Americans and legal immigrants\n Most Americans do their own laundry and yard work. I have a garden every year, make many of my own clothes, do my own laundry, work in my own yard.  There are enough legal immigrants and American citizens that want jobs that will do what the ILLEGAL immigrants do. If anyone thinks we can't do without them, why don't they take their butts back to Mexico and just see what we can do WITHOUT  them.
661397
Well, if we build a wall to keep out the Mexicans...who would we have build the wall? ...  I am so sorry... And just for the record it was a joke.