07-31-2010, 12:59 AM
(07-31-2010, 12:24 AM)SidewaysDan Wrote: Well you can have sons of immigrants that look latino but are totally legal US citizens. Do they need to carry papers around with them?
The latino residents of Arizona aren't necessarily the sons of immigrants.
When California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas became US territories at the end of the Mexican-American War, there were approximately 80,000 latino residents, comprising about 20% of the population. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) guaranteed the property rights of formerly Mexican citizens in the transferred territories. These original residents became US citizens through annexation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_G...pe_Hidalgo