Hispanic immigrants, are you happy in the US? Do you miss your home country?

For a significant portion of Hispanic people parts of America are their home country. [history](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas) Mexico declared its independence from Spain on September 16, 1810 and war ended on September 26, 1821.[15] Because of Mexico's independence from Spain, Texas became the property of Mexico.[15] Around this time, the United States had obtained massive amounts of land from France through the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.[16] In addition, under Mexican law, Texas was available for anyone to move to and also offered land grants to empresarios.[17] During this time, the population of Texas grew quickly.[18] The population was not only Mexican but also included United States citizens, Native Americans and enslaved people.[19] When people residing in Texas did not agree with Mexican law and did not follow the law, Mexico ended all immigration into Texas.[19] Such events led to the Texas Independence which then led to the annexation of Texas and then to the Mexican–American War.[10] On February 2, 1848 the peace treaty, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, was signed between Mexico and the United States which essentially gave the United States much of the land that was owned by Mexico in the north and established the Rio Grande River as the border between Texas and Mexico.[20] Moreover, Hispanics and Latinos already living in the territory that became of the United States, were given the opportunity to stay and obtain United States citizenship.[20] While many chose to leave to their home country, many also decided to stay.[20] Anti-Latino attitudes spiked during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Latinos, among other foreigners, were accused of stealing jobs from Americans and contributing to the decline of the economy. In response to the growing, Anglo-American, frustration, the United States government forcibly removed 2 million Latinos with the majority of them being American citizens. During these repatriations, local governments denied aid to those of Mexican descent, offered train fares to Mexico and raided Latino communities. Hospitals removed Latinos with disabilities and illness while employers laid off Latino workers. To avoid raids and discrimination, many Latinos returned to Mexico voluntarily. By 1936, approximately one third of Texas's Latino population had been repatriated.[29] These sentiments heightened in the 1840s with the end of the Mexican-American War and the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The increased population of Latinos were met with further illegal deportations, violence, racism, and segregation.[29] In instance of these reactions was the Olivera Street raid of 1931. During this raid, law enforcement and immigration agents arrested and deported nearly 400 Mexican-Americans despite their citizenship or immigration status in America. [source ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanics_and_Latinos_in_Texas)