Originally Posted by Bristoe
Originally Posted by Archerhunter
Originally Posted by Bristoe
It's not about Hispanics. It's about illegals. I've never lived in the Southwest but have been around there enough to know that the Hispanic Americans out there are just pick-up truck drivin', cowbow boot wearin', cold beer drinkin' folks like all the rest of the people out there.

,...been that way for a long, long time.


Plus one.
They didn't come here to remain mexicans.
They came here to become Americans.

And just like yours and my ancestors they accomplished exactly that.

Legally.

Worked their asses off too to do it.

Leaving an old homeland to become something new and better means LEAVING THE HOMELAND TO BECOME SOMETHING NEW AND BETTER!





That's true enough, but what many people in the east don't realize is, *Lots* of the families of the Hispanic Americans in the southwest were living there before the southwest became part of the country.

,...and they had been there for generations before that.

Those Spaniards started wandering around out there a long time ago.

They're not immigrants by any reasonable definition.


Lots of our deeds go back to Spanish Land Grants.

It confuses private pilots when they fly over parts our area. The fence lines don't run due North and South when they are also property lines. Something about the Spanish surveyors and their way of laying out the grant boundaries.

We have a LOT of American Mexicans around here.

But more of the illegal variety.

Never holler whoa or look back in a tight place