Ironically, 1-2 million hispanics were illegally deported into Mexico and now their children are attacked for trying to "illegally" return.

Ironically the lands most are trying to return to were originally stolen from Mexico. The Mexican-American War started because Mexico had so much extra land in what we now know as Texas that it opened its borders to all those who wished for free land to settle. Americans swarmed in by the thousands, along with their slaves. But when Mexico a few years later outlawed slavery the angry slaveholders petitioned the American government, saying they wanted to cede. The government knew what was going on but went along with it, some because of "manifest destiny" and some because they were Southerners who wanted more southern slave states at a time when the free were outnumbering the slave and thus a danger to their institution of slavery.

Former presidents Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and John Quincy Adams were among those who opposed the war, as well as some writer guy named Henry David Thoreau that you might have heard of.

Mexican-American War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The History Guy: The U.S.-Mexican War (1846-184