You lose your culture. Mission Indians who had been in occupation of the premises long before the Mexican grants. Mexico City, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was negotiated and brought the war to an end. American Nation, a history, by Dr. The fantasy of instant wealth induced a mass exodus to California. Is Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur expensive to live? The uncertain legal status of undocumented immigrants renders them all the more susceptible to exploitation in the workplace. The Mexican commissioners, however, insisted on having both banks of the Rio Grande and all of California up to the neighborhood of San Francisco, besides receiving damages for injuries inflicted by the American troops in their invasions. Mexico also came to recognize the Rio Grande as the border with the United States. If you are driving, they will let you across the Mexican border but since you are supposed to have your passport to get back in, you may be temporarily detained while they verify your citizenship. Do you think I need to get a new passport before I leave? He claimed could not a small number of a variety of enforcement difficulties organizing in hidalgo of treaty with southern states? The signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo officially ended the war on February 2 14 In addition to the ceded territory Mexico gave up its claims on Texas. Eventually the commission confirmed most of the grants brought before it, but many Mexican landholders lost their land, for only the wealthy could afford the lengthy litigation process. He and his family fled the civil war in El Salvador by coming to the United States. Congressional support for a declaration of war against Mexico.