This is from a few weeks back - http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-murder-of-an-honorable-lawyer-in-myanmar http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the

This is from a few weeks back - http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-murder-of-an-honorable-lawyer-in-myanmar http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-murder-of-an-hon... I accept it is not black and white and it is all shades of grey, however as you point out these are people who have been around from before the concept of citizenship became rigidly enforced. Now, to them this world however horrible it is to them is their reality and it is where they were born and raised and call their home - it is not like how you portray the US and Mexico but more nuanced. Lets say any immigrant had a kid in the US, that kid doesn't know of any reality except the one he/she was born into, so is your hypothesis that everyone in the US has lived on it for the last 500 years? Most if not all made their way in through porous borders. So, by your logic, everyone should have lived in their own place - which by your logical conclusion means US is an illegal state because it is not ruled by the Native Americans who are technically the people who lived there from long back.