Mexican Americans are still fighting for land they were promised generations ago | Nightline

As a Chicano in my 30’s, I was never taught this in school. Gracias.

It boggles my mind how people tell Mexicans to “go back to where you came from?” when our people are literally Native to the North American Continent for thousands of years. Our ancestors domesticated the corn, built complex societies, pyramids, generated trade and commerce and so forth. Yes we have our flaws we are not perfect, but it does get me frustrated when ignorant people spew hate not realizing how our culture is very influential. They eat our food, wear our clothes, etc. but I guess you can’t reason with irrational people to begin with.

Abraham Lincoln was asked what he thought about the American-Mexican war and he said that's nothing to be proud of as we stole land, somewhere around those words

"Go back to Mexico", they never left.

Thank you for shining light on this. My family has always been in the Rio Grande Valley. I always hated when I moved up to Dallas that people would tell me “to go back go to Mexico” but we’ve always been here the border just moved.

Most Anglo Americans today are of German ancestry who mostly came to America in the 1900s way after the dust had settled.

Justicia para México 🇲🇽 justicia para los mexicanos, desde el otro lado estamos orgullosos de su resistencia y de su organización.

"The US was not content with what it had" sums up most of America's history.

When the cult tells someone to go back to their country but don't realize that much of them were always there

Those of us who understand what America was built on know better than to believe the lies that are spewed about Mexicans & other ethnic groups. It’s not fair or right to judge others just because of where they come from rather than the type of people they are individually. I’m sorry that you’ve been treated with such disgrace. 😞

Is that Whoopi narrating? Sounds like her..

Native and Mexican was done the same way by government taking they land away we alwayz been here remembering my grandma how much land we had

The U.S has always had a racist mentality since it was founded. It’s time to make a change. It’s time to respect and honor all diversities. We’re all human beings. We are all exposed to the sun.

Finally someone telling the truth!

I keep explaining over and over to people the native tribes that occupy California, Oregon, Whyome, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Washington, and Nevada today are nothing but the Mexicans that chose to stay in the United States instead of flee deeper into Mexico. During the time of the Mexican war all the western part of the United States, was northern Mexico. What this means is that all the Native Americans from those western states (which use to be northern Mexico), the same people as the native Mexicans. Most of the native population during the Mexican war fled deeper into Mexico ( which was know back then as southern Mexico). What I'm trying to say is that the Indians are alive and stronger than before because the native Mexicans are the Indians and the Native U.S Indians, are the Mexicans the are one and the same.

Its not that they weren't given promised land, they had their land stolen from them.

My 6th cousin Gen. Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo owned 66,000 acres before the treaty of Hidalgo . When Mexico became the U.S he fought 10 years took it to the supreme court. In the end he only had 200 acres i believe. President Lincoln was said to tell John C. Freemont to obtain California at all cost. He was part if the fiag revoult in California. Putting gen. Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo in jail for two months and when he came out it was the U.S. not mexico anymore.

I didn't even know this maybe they should be teaching this in schools because you have all these ppl going around calling someone else and illegal when they should be really looking at themselves.

This ppl were actually the lucky ones. many others were killed and others forced to move to the other side of the border loosing absolutely everything..

My neice found my dad's New Mexican birth father. Our Gonzalez ancestors came in the 1600s to avoid the Inquisition. (Sephardic Jews.) My dad's birth mother was an Alaskan Native. We are now members of her tribe.