“Illegals” are all over the world and from all over the world, and they migrate to find a JOB to EARN money and pay their bills, food, rent etc… and not depend on others.
“Man” has created laws in every country that have supposed to be respected but some of those laws are so strict that people can’t be themselves or live comfortable, like DICTATORS in some countries; do you think is fair to someone to be treated like a slave???
People just try to SURVIVE but unfortunately there are peope-(criminals) that just distroy other people’s life and future, and on the way they give to other people a bad image just by being from certain country. Not just by trying to survive means you are a criminal!.

“Forget The Alamo, that is just History”???
Tha is so stupid on your part, you need to analyze that, and realize that we all have history. Why forget something that you can learn from? that way we cat try to be better people and realize that we need each other in this planet, and not fight.
So try to forget your history and see what you can do without it!.

1. Political – Mexico is clearly for political reasons included in the definition of “North America” in NAFTA. However, the UN puts Mexico in Central America. Paradoxically one could reasonably defer to the UN as a more objective authority and say Mexico is part of Central America as they state that their classification is “apolitical” and based on groupings determined for statistical convenience. Anti-immigration American politicians rarely refer to Mexico as being part of North America.

2. Geological – Geologically, Mexico, USA and Canada are all (largely) on the same North American geological plate. There is no meaningful debate to be had here. Mexico by this definition is part of North America, end of story. (See: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Continents.shtml)

3. Cultural – those who define North America as Canada and the USA only probably recognize that Canada and the USA are very similar culturally. Not only do they share the same language (large French and Spanish speaking populations notwithstanding) but they also share much of the same cultural predispositions such as similarities in their traditional holidays like Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, Labour Day etc. Mexico does not fit the bill culturally – at least, not yet.

4. Historical – if one accepts the European perspective as being the dominant perspective for so much of what people throughout the world have accepted “as fact” (e.g. ask most people “Who discovered America?” and you’ll probably hear the answer “Christopher Columbus”) then historically, Europeans have included Mexico in Central America not North America. I am unclear why this is the case, but I suspect that the historical classification is a cultural predisposition by European geographers, but I can’t say that for sure. By this measure, then you’re pretty much stuck with Mexico not being part of North America. Clearly, these geographers came AFTER Mexico lost California.

5. Geographical – notwithstanding the fact that a significant part of Mexico lies north of some Texas border towns (e.g. Tijuana is further north than Brownsville), geographically, it is easy to see how Mexico can be lumped into Central America as enough of it can reasonably be construed to make up part of the isthmus that connects the two larger land masses of South America and the USA.

I suspect that there are even more perspectives including anthropological, military etc. Personally, I think that both positions have legitimacy, it all depends on the context. So if someone asks me this question in future, then I’ll retort: “Do you mean politically, geologically, culturally, geographically or historically?”

Consider pre-modern societies such as the Maya, whose cities were interconnected into one cultural sphere that spread from Cozumel, Central Mexico lowlands, into Veracruz, Honduras and Guatemala. Culturally, Mexico still has much more in common with the Central American societies than it does with the cultural traditions, language and customs of North American USA and Canada.

Without overstating the obvious, new patterns of immigration and demographic shifts are resulting in changing perceptions of such ambiguous regional zones. Not surprisingly, those who desire seeing the USA fuse inter-regionally with Mexico are re-drawing and re-defining such culture zones, and those who want Mexico to be in North America will support such changing definitions.