Speech #1040263165

I would like to relate to why it impacts on our side. and a little bit of what we have in unison with the people of Mexico and the nation of Mexico. First. let me say that the odyssey began some 500 years ago. when the first Spanish galleons traveled across the Atlantic under the sponsorship of a gracious queen of Spain. really searching for the Far East and the spices. and all of the other things that they wanted to bring back to Spain and to Europe. but a sailor named Christopher Columbus navigated his way and ended up in the islands of the Caribbean. From then came further and further immigration to the new lands. to the new world. Some of the first galleons that traveled from Spain. and the Spanish and the Portuguese navigated the world over. all the seas of the world. and then Great Britain and all of the other navies of the European nations. those that had navies. but this was the beginning of colonizing. the beginning of bringing people. Records show that the Spaniards came to Hudson Bay. to the northeast part of the United States. throughout the Atlantic. through the Gulf. but the eventual landings in which we are interested tonight came into what is now Mexico. basically Mexico and the Gulf parts of the United States.