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Both. They already inhabited the US southwest before the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), when Mexico was defeated and was forced to "sell" these lands to the United States. After the war, the US-Mexico border was lightly if enforced at all, so many people came and went without restrictions, until the 20th century.

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