I like to view the immigration "problem" from the broad perspective of the European migration to the Americas. I don't see the United States as a finished product. It's part of a continuum that we think of beginning in 1492. In fact there were Portuguese fisherman off the coast of North America decades earlier, and at least the Norse before that, but generally speaking 1492 marks the beginning of what is best seen as a great human migration and subsequent European and African population growth in the Americas. It represents, over a several hundred year period that represents a very small span of time, relative to our history on this planet, a great migration or movement of humans. (Note: I recognized that Mormons may subscribe to a different history of the Western Hemisphere which has people from the Old World arriving here far earlier)
There were people here already. Native Americans.
I look at the past several hundred years from that perspective. There are still tribes living in the Amazon jungle, close to how they have lived for thousands of years. For those tribes, the contact period of the 16th and 17th centuries is happening now. So this movement is still an ongoing process, this impact of European culture and people's on the native inhabitants of this hemisphere.
And, in seeing things in terms of this broad movement in history, I consider that most Mexican illegals, and those from Central America, are in fact Native American, and their movement now is a part of the movement and period begun in 1492. The entire history of the past leads to the present, and I'm sure one could without much difficulty see the movement of Mexican Native Americans north as precipitated by the onset and continuation of a great movement of people commencing in 1492.
Further, Native Americans of the Ute-Aztecan language groups, which most Mexicans are, originated north of the Mexican border in all likelihood. So you could view most of these Native Americans from south of the border as returning to ancestral homelands when they cross the border illegally.
I am writing from the perspective of a political fantasyland, obviously, since this is not 1492, or the aftermath of the Mexican War. It's the era of the political borders of 2016, and we expect those borders to be recognized and defended. That Mexicans are Native Americans is irrelevant in this real world. Still, understanding things as part of a movement of people set in motion in 1492 somehow increases my own tolerance, and I prefer as broad a perspective as possible.
Here is a more extreme point of view, overstated in terms of the real world just mentioned, but nonetheless, it perhaps has merit. This writer is no doubt Native American. I am not, but that has no bearing on trying to view the history of this hemisphere since 1492 in the fashion I have chosen. History is usually written from the perspective of the victors, not the vanquished. But, when seen from the perspective of the vanquished, in this case Native Americans, the increasing migration north of Latinos/Hispanics(read: Native Americans) can be seen as the re-browning of North America. Hispanics or Latinos crossing borders illegally are not really illegal aliens if in fact they are the only true native Americans to begin with. And the re-browning of America may just be the next phase in the movement of peoples commencing way back in 1492. The United States is a work in progress, not a finished product, and the events begun in 1492 are still ongoing. If descendants of white Europeans don't like this development, maybe they could think of it as the real Montezuma's revenge. So, from the perspective of history's vanquished, it is perhaps informative to realize Hispanics/Latinos, as we call them, are actually the original Native Americans, and it is possible to view history through the lens of the vanquished:
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