While I agree that nobody would ever realistic expect that the US would return the land stolen from Mexico or even pay them for its current per acre value, I often use that possibility in order to make a point. When some one starts bitching about illegal immigration from Mexico, I'll say that before we should talk about deporting one single Mexican we should give them back California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and most of Nevada and Colorado since we stole it from them in an illegal war of conquest. It doesn't often change their opinions but it sometimes shuts them up for a minute. As a character in a recent movie said: "I didn't cross the border, the border crossed me."
    There are many Mexicans living in my region (NE Ohio). They work hard, obey the laws, mind their own business and spend their earnings in the local businesses where they pay sales tax, which as far as I'm concerned is more than their fair share of the tax burden. They do not measurably effect the local unemployment rate. Maybe we could use more of them contributing to our historically multi-cultural society.
                                          Neil