Do Mexicans In The US Have a Legitimate Claim To Citizenship?

Question

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was the peace treaty that ended the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). The treaty provided for the Mexican Cession, in which Mexico ceded 1.36 million km² (525,000 square miles) to the United States in exchange for USD$15 million. The United States also agreed to take over $3.25 million in debts Mexico owed to American citizens.

The cession included parts of the modern-day U.S. states of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming, as well as the whole of California, Nevada, and Utah. The remaining parts of what are today the states of Arizona and New Mexico were later ceded under the 1853 Gadsden Purchase. he treaty was signed by Nicholas P. Trist on behalf of the United States and three plenipotentiary representatives of Mexico on February 2, 1848, at the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo (today Gustavo A. Madero, D.F.), slightly north of Mexico City.

It was subsequently ratified by the United States Senate on March 10 and by the Mexican government on May 19; the countries' ratifications were duly exchanged on May 30, 1848, at the city of Santiago de Querétaro. However, the version of the treaty ratified by the United States Senate eliminated Article 10, which stated that the U.S. government would honor and guarantee all land grants awarded in lands conquered by the United States to citizens of Spain and Mexico by those respective governments. Article 8 guaranteed that Mexicans who remained more than one year in the conquered lands would automatically become full-fledged American citizens (or they could declare their intention of remaining Mexican citizens); however, this Article was effectively weakened by Article 9, written into the treaty by the U.S. Senate, which stated that Mexican citizens would "be admitted at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States)."

Congress has never acted to allow the 80,000 Mexicans in the ceded territory citizens?

http://www.pbs.org/kpbs/theborder/history/timeline/6.html

I think some missed the point. The treaty recinded citezenship for those in the ceded territory and never gave it back. So they are all illegal. David T, you should really try to read a question before you answer it or at least look at previous questions and answers by the poster.

C Bass

Article 9 of the treaty effectively canceled Article 8. Articla 9 said congress would take up the issue of citizenship later, it never did.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Guadalupe_Hidalgo

Answer 1

NNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

Many times they try to lie and say that they are Native Americans so that they won't have the stigma attached to them when someone calls them a Mexican. That is a dirty word now, you see? The ignorant and eneducated Mexicans who mindlessly claim this however, forget to leave out some other words like SOUTH American and illegal and border jumper. Also, when they claim to be Native Americans, can never give you a legitimate tribal enrollment number or tell you of a reservation that they have ever been to. You see the pattern? It should not come as any surprise, however, when you consider all of the dishonesty it takes for them to come over here and live. What I mean is all of the fake ID's and fake s.s. numbers etc. It's hard to have respect for a people who seem to have lying and dishonesty as a way of living.

Forgive me for being so long "winded." In answer to your question, NO. They do not if they are illegal.

Answer 3

No and Again NO don't try to use the same old La meche trick of mis quoting the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and don't try to say it s Aztlan and you have a heretiary right to the land Aztlan is a mythological place and never existed. I think I will start a movement saying I am from Atlantian dissent and want to illegally move to Greece. Think they will let me stay and work and use a Greek citizens' stolen ID and use their medical services and schools for free and make them teach me in English? Wake up and go home to Mexico and fix your country don't come here and abuse mine.

Answer 4

In addition to applying to Mexicans who were already living on the land, you're still talking about those that were here "legally".

I'm not sure how you are relating this piece of legislation/agreement/pact to today's current events...


____ UPDATE ____

You cited your source on pbs.org, then go on to say that the 80,000 Mexicans were never given citizenship. But the article clearly says:

"Only a few people chose to remain Mexican citizens compared to the many that became United States citizens."

In fact "many" became citizens. The article isn't focusing on that. It's focusing on property and land ownership, of which, it may or may not have a valid point about.

Answer 5

No.

Did you notice citizenship was granted to the Mexicans THEN THERE, thereafter making them American citizens? Citizens of Mexico who weren't there rightfully had no place in the discussion and no rights even worth debating.

According to studies a majority of Hispanic Americans consider illegal immigration to be a serious problem. The percentage disapproving of it goes up the longer their families have been in this country.

Answer 6

Not the illegal ones. The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo basically said that Mexico signed away their rights.

Answer 7

America is the land of the free and it's liberty stands as a symbol to the people of the United States,as people we should recognize what we stand and fight for this is base in our national antheme A NATION UNDER GOD,,,and WE THE PEOPLE therefore I believe that every one should have the chance and be givin the chance to apart of that freedom,not illegally but in the guidelines of the laws of the United States of America.

Answer 8

Ever know a treaty we didn't break?

Polk started that unpopular war after settlers ignored the boundaries of the US provided under the Louisiana Purchase and settled in Mexico. Later they decided to Annex land that wasn't theirs and this war began!

So we can use force to rob peoples lands!

How would you like it id they came and robbed your land!!

Answer 9

This only applies to Mexicans who owned land and were still living on it at the time. There are none alive today.

Answer 10

long winded, if there parents were citizens then they are citizens, but in the long term only god really owns the earth and no amount of selling or stealing will ever change that

Answer 11

UMMM.... NO!
if my parents had to go through all the stuff it takes to get here then so do they, NO exceptions!