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Originally Posted by EZRhino
Mexico has made its own people poor and insists that America pay for it. Yes we did get California, Arizona, and New Mexico, after we paid for it, I believe it was $15 mil.
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well I won't get into how Mexico screws their people over, or how we help, but....
The US
took most of the Southwestern US from Mexico as a result of the treaty signed after the Mexican-American War. The $15 mil was half the amount the US offered Mexico prior to the war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Cession
Don't fuck with a former history teacher.