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It's almost as if the entire southwest used to be Mexico.

Ukraine used to be the USSR too.

What are you talking about? Can we avoid the Reddit/twitter style of comment? If you have an argument or a point to make just make it.

Is this one of these stupid "yeah 300 years ago this used to be on that land!!!" argument? Buddy, if so, stop living in the past. Territories are conquered all the time everywhere throughout the entirety of History.

Plus, this has nothing to do with current immigration laws.

The point is that families didn't just evacuate when it turned into US territory. There are very strong ties to Mexico in the southwest that will never go away.

And what does it have to do with foreigners illegally coming to do these seasonal jobs? People who were here when it became US territory just became citizens.

How does it apply to the specific case mentioned in the parent? How does it relate to illegal workers who somehow are now "trapped" in the US because some weird fringe program was stopped?

Family. Imagine if the state next to yours was no longer the US.

The descendants of those people have always been American citizens.

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