Immigration has been the name of the game here in the Americas ever since those pesky Europeans left their homelands for our beautiful, bountiful shores. They even brought a bunch of Africans with them! And, because those first European explorers were all men, they didn't stop to ask for directions and hence saddled us First Nations' types with the moniker "Indian."
As an Alaska Native, I am getting rather tired of these European descendants speaking out against immigrants. Like they should have any say whatsoever in this matter? They were the worst profligates of illegal immigration. What? You think the "Indians" wanted to share their homelands with these pale faced, stinky, poorly-mannered invaders? These new comers didn't even believe in regular bathing until we learned 'em different! If they spent too much time in the sun, they turned red as boiled lobsters! They didn't even allow their women to have any say in how their society and government were run! They murdered and raped and maimed millions of us (conservative estimates puts the total loss of life since 1492 at over 100 million peoples across the Americas) because they did not view us as humans! And, to add injury to insult, they claimed that we were the "savages?"
Yeah, right . . .
So, just a little refresher on HOW WE GOT THE SOUTHWESTERN STATES (and were stuck with Texas):
The Mexican American War of the early 1800s. You see, the "white" Europeans trucked themselves over to the East Coast of what is now the United States of America, displacing all those First Nations' types who were subsequently pushed further West (the Lakota, Nakota and Dakota peoples were pushed onto their present areas from the Great Lakes region), but the Europeans had an insatiable lust for land and reneged on a whole bunch of land-use contracts and treaties . . . they broke their own laws and then justified breaking them by saying that the treaties and contracts were unenforceable because "Indians" were not considered "real" people . . . kinda like SCOTUS insisting on corporate personhood and their legal justification to strip women of their status as humans.
Where was I? Oh, yeah, so the "white" Europeans were coming in from the East. Well, the Spanish had already made their inroads across what is now Latin American and were expanding up the West Coast. In fact, they even made it up into what is now Alaska! You know, Cordova and Valdez (pronounced vahl-DEEZ), Alaska towns with suspiciously Spanish sounding names . . . These Spaniards came up the West Coast, married into various tribes, brought their religion (Catholic, not Protestant, like the other Europeans) and their customs and their language. They set up shop across places named California, Neuvo Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, Texas. They named towns El Paso, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, Murrieta, Tuscon, Santa Rosa, etc.
Well, the white Protestants had continued their push from the East, killing and maiming and otherwise being terrible guests, until they also ran into Texas. A bunch of them wanted to settle in Texas (why we didn't just let 'em, I have no idea) so's they could be squatters on Mexican territory, but they didn't want to follow anyone's laws, not Mexican law and not US law. Basically, they were a bunch of prisoners who escaped from jails and other assorted scofflaws who really didn't want to do anything but make trouble and not adhere to anything other than the golden rule: you know, the rule that says, "Thems that gots the gold makes the rules."
So, the two new nations of Mexico and the US decided that they'd have a fight over this contested territory, completely ignoring the fact that neither of these neighbors really had anything more than squatters' rights to any of the territories they held.
In sum, white European Protestants were the first illegal immigrants in the southwestern US. They have squatters' rights because might makes right and they are jealous that they were not the first ones out here.
And, to the people who protested the transportation of other people through their town of Murrieta, I say, "Shame on you. Shame on you for acting the foolish bully. Shame on you for thinking that your recessive genes make you better than other people. Shame on you for assuming that Murrieta had it's foundations in your bigoted and poisoned worldview. Shame on you for forgetting the history of the region in which you live. Shame on you for holding such an outdated and destructive worldview that feeds your insecurities and egos to the detriment of humans everywhere."