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He was not fighting "Texas, US", but reigning in a separatist movement of people fighting Mexico to make Texas independent of Mexico and become the Republic of Texas. It was therefore not an act of aggression against the United States, since Texas, which was part of the New Spain and now belonged to the Free Mexican United States, after having expelled the Spaniards in Mexico's War of Independence, of 1810 after 300 plus years of colonization by Spain.
Mexico was attempting to maintain it's territorial integrity fighting the separatists and who were being supported by the United States the ultimate goal being that the Republic of Texas would then join the Union, as a southern, slave state.

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