History is exactly the point: The United States has a nearly two hundred year history of exploiting certain people when they are needed and quite literally throwing them away when they are not. Is that a moral way to behave? An ethical action?

The fervor for forcible expulsions have been so high that many times — documented as many as 40-50% of the people in some cases — American citizens with Hispanic surnames were deported. Where is their rightful home?

At any rate, being a Mexicano, we thought perhaps you would let us know what states of Mexico are being invaded by gringos? Man, I feel your pain. Gringos. ugh. In the meantime, my fingers are crossed for the reconquista.

After much discussion, we decided you must be talking about Guanajuato, right? San Miguel de Allende is there. It’s “been said” that there are too many gringos there. Or maybe you meant Ajijic? Lake Chapala near Guadalajara?

Anyway, Yucatan Living is an educational, newsy, visually-beautiful (in our judgment) website about Merida, Yucatan, Mexico and the sorts of wondrous experiences possible there. Chief among those are the gracious, warm and accepting attitudes of Yucatecan Mexicans.

Visiting a website like this with anti-Mexican-isms is sorta anti-social to say the least and maybe a little odd. There are many other websites where that sort of talk is cheered, enjoyed, welcomed. Enjoy.

In the above comment you briefly scoff at the term íllegal invasion´, then spend the next nine paragraphs waffling about long forgotten and largely irrelevant history before scoffing at it once again. Just which part of the term do you object to exactly – the ´illegal´ bit or the ´invasion´ bit?

That phrase isn’t used by many Mexicans. It’s usually used by deportation advocates in the USA.

There is a long history of the United States using Mexico and Mexicans for our own benefit then throwing them out when it suited the US. It is historical fact. I have always believed that right and wrong wasn’t decided by who was more powerful, but rather, by what actions were and were not just.

In the early years of the 1900s, country property records throughout “The Valley” region of Texas suddenly showed thousands, then tens of thousands, of small farms and ranches losing Hispanic names and assuming Anglo names. Those people were not selling out. In fact, their fathers and grandfathers had fought alongside Anglos against their own Mexican government. (Yucatan, likewise, did not care much for Santa Ana’s policies.)

No, they were not selling their land. Anglos were taking it. Headed by tough Texas Rangers, thugs were killing the men and running off the women and children, in order to consolidate the land into large ranches. They were as American as their white persecutors, but they only found refuge once inside Mexico.

In the 1930s, gangs of thugs in California worked to deport Mexican laborers there. Except once again, they ended up deporting as many US Citizens as Mexicans.

During World War II, the US pleaded for help from Mexico. We were drafting and enlisting every able-bodied man in the USA for war. Who would plant the crops, tend the fields, harvest the food? We turned to Mexico, who provided hundreds of thousands of “braceros” to help feed the nation.

Then, in 1954, President Eisenhower endorsed “Operation Wet Back.” (Yes, that was the actual name.) He appointed a military general as head of the INS and they set about deporting Mexicans. Except once again, they got as many American citizens as Mexicans. Tens of thousands were rounded up, roughed up, denied their belongings and their property, loaded in boxcars and shipped south. Hundreds of thousands were estimated to have fled in fear.

To discourage return, the trains went deep into Mexico. Many US citizens, stranded deep in Mexico without money, property, or connections to home, had no way to return.

Those are a few examples of how the US has treated Mexicans and Mexican American US Citizens. Use them when needed; discard them when done. To me, that entire history of conduct is immoral. A large number of people in Mexico today are descendants of US Citizen-deportees. With the passage of time, there’s no way to sort one from another.

There are many more reasons that I do not support US policies regarding immigration, including the environmental catastrophe that walling the border will cause. Wildlife doesn’t recognize borders. No nation has ever “sealed its borders” and no nation ever will. Show me a 10′ wall and I’ll show you a 20′ ladder. Show me an impenetrable fence and I’ll show you inflatable boats in the sea. etc, etc, etc.

But, “illegal invasion”? wow…