"We should give it back on the same day that the USA returns Texas and California to Mexico."

"The people there now are as entitled to self determination as anyone else....(t)he same for Texas, California, etc.?

People should read a lot more about the aquisition of California, New Mexico Territory and Texas by the United States. Once Spain went home in 1821, several areas that Spain forced to become part of Mexico revolted against the tyranical government centered in Mexico City. Many people know that Texas was an independent country from 1835-1846 and that its people voted to join the US (twice, actually), but how many people know that Yucatan was an independent country for a while or that and area the size of Texas, just to the south, also demanded independence?