Mexicans migrate to ‘their land’

“Native Utahn David Timmins makes it clear up front that he has no personal issue with Mexico or the Mexican people. During a well-traveled career as a U.S. foreign service officer, he lived for a time in Mexico and says he enjoyed his posting there immensely.

But in light of the current consternation over immigration, the Harvard-educated diplomat thinks it’s applicable to the debate to bring up something he learned while he lived south of the border.

“Mexicans see the Western U.S. as part of Mexico that was stolen from them 150 years ago,” he says. “They believe this with all their heart.”"

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