After reading the “Squatters and the Don” the land truly belongs to the Mexicans I'm not talking to tific this letter Rancho I'm talking about the whole California , but the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo says differently. Who ever wins the war also writes the history books, but the land should go to Don he was the owner before the treaty was signed. After the treaty he even state "by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo the American nation pledged its honor to respect our land titles just the same as Mexico would have done". (Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton, 95) what a disgrace American past can be, have no problem to steal land or not to protect those who paid taxes for the land. The government always wants a bigger piece of the pie can never that
