A History Lesson

As most people, I've been following this whole imagration issue, and there is one thing that makes me more angry than anything else with this issue, and that is claims that the United States stole the land that we have now from Mexico. Not true.

First of all, the land in question was disputed between the U.S., and Spain. Mexico had no legitimate claims on the land. Second of all, to claim that we invaded is also a lie, because any and all were invited into Texas, because the Mexican government could not get anyone to live there.

Texans decided to secede from Mexico after the Mexican government adopted a new constitution that the invited North-American settlers did not want to live under. So, in 1836, Texas became a nation with the signing of their own Declartion of Independence. Thereafter, Texas won it's independence in subsequent battles, most notably the Battle of San Jacinto.

Ten years later, in 1845, Texas was annexed to the U.S., which sent Mexican officials into a furor, claiming that Texas was just a rebel province. According to America's "Manifest Destiny" policy, President Polk sent an ambasader to Mexico to offer $30 million dollars for the land. Mexico refused, and Polk sent an army to the border where they built a fort on the Rio Grande to presure Mexico into taking the deal. They did not take the deal and crossed the Rio Grande and attacked U.S. forces. The rest is history.

I've just proved that 1) America did not attack Mexico and 2) We offered a peaceful means to an end.

All those who repeat the "Americans attacked and stole Mexico" rhetoric is full of it.

Source- WikiPedia