America and Mexico had a WAR. Mexico lost. The US took the territory and was nice enough to even give Mexico $15 million (about $500 million today) and assumed all debts Mexico had with the US. That was the norm for wars at the time, or are you going to try and apply the historian's fallacy to this?
On the other hand, the Gadsden Purchase was a straight up real estate deal with Mexico where the US bought the land.
You also forgot the part where the US bought some of that land from Russia too...
Over much of the territory that the US acquired, Mexico had ZERO control over it at the time of this war. For example, in Arizona, the furthest north Mexico had any government entity was the Presideo of Tucson garrisoned by a couple dozen troops and a couple of officers. That was the extent of Mexico's control over what became the Arizona territory.
I say you are an historical illiterate. The moral standard we should have for not taking Latino (Mexican and Central American) people is that they should fix their own fucked up countries rather than fleeing them to come here and fuck things up. It's fuckwit Reichtard radical Leftists who seem to think that we should take them in even as they have no historical perspective on facts but rather run on propaganda and made up nonsense.
Learn some fucking history before making yourself a fool for everyone to see.
If any of the above is relevant, said relevancy is completely dissipated and dismissed from consideration for having come from your keyboard, TAG.
That went without saying, but I said it anyway.
Do you think that I care about any of that?
It was land belonging to Latino people,
we appropriated it in whatever manner we felt was expedient,
and now it's time to let the Latino people back onto it.
Since some of our nation's least desirable white people reside in Texas and Arizona,
and the expulsion of said undesirables would be the most expedient way to make room for the more promising refugees.
Send a few more crackers from Southeast Conference territory out the door as well, just to keep them company.
They also lost a war, didn't they?
This isn't advanced sociology. This is common sense.
At the very least, we know that the devil we don't
know can't possibly be as bad as the devil we do know.
That, of course, is a given.