I appreciate your family history and contributions to the way of life here that serves to continue the long held traditions of naturalization and citizenship here in the US madmex, and assure you I hold no issue with that.

The issue I have is with the unbridled illegal border crossings into my own home state that has led to a serious drain over the years on our states economy and social resources.

Many illegals work for cash, then send a large part of their earnings back to Mexico which indeed has an economic impact to the economy.

They also use the free county/state run medical facilities when needed at no cost to them, something even I as a born citizen can't do.

Though most of them are very hard workers and have a great work ethic which I greatly respect them for, many also seem to have an inordinate penchant for alcohol which tends to land then in troble with the law and clog up our judicial system here.

The problem of illegal immigrants is multifaceted and complex to say the least. The axe I have to grind is simply that they are enjoying the opportunities here without contributing to the society financially which places another unfair burden upon the taxpayers.

Just as a point of fact madmex, the various native Indian tribes here are the only true natives of this land. The Mexicans you mentioned came as a byproduct of the Spanish and typically Indian pairings, making the Mexicans just another sort of "blended" immigrants themselves.

Texas asked for independence from Mexico and when that was denied, declared independence and won it with a pretty bloody war with Mexico over it, eventually even marching troops into Mexico to end it once and for all.

Out of complete curiosity madmex, do you know where the term "gringo" came from ? It's an interesting story, and seemingly as lost to most who use it as is the fact that Africans themselves were the ones who sold their own opposing tribes into slavery back in the 1800s is to most blacks today.

One last query. Though I'd hate to see us have to errect a wall stretching all along our southern or northern borders, what alternative suggestion could you make that would better suit the problem of unbridled illegal immigration we have now?
It's easy to make complaints, but more difficult to offer viable solutions ;>