Posted on 04/07/2017 8:34:55 PM PDT by Rusty0604
The New York Times has just published an op-ed article saying that Mexico may give up its rightful claim to ownership of Texas, California and the entire Southwest of the United States, but only if the U.S. government gives the hugely valuable prize of U.S. citizenship to many millions of Mexicans — plus citizenship for all their kids and grandkids, on and on, forever.
The infinitely valuable compensation is justified because today’s Americans must wipe away the moral stain of war crimes committed in the 1840s by the U.S. military and government, says the op-ed by a Mexican historian and author, Enrique Krauze, who notably declined to forswear a alternative Mexican reconquista of the Southwest.
… some Mexicans are proposing to remind Mr. Trump exactly what country was the first victim of American imperialism. They are calling for a lawsuit that would aim to nullify the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (signed on Feb. 2, 1848), in which Mexico — invaded by American soldiers, its capital occupied, its ports and customs stations seized — was forced to accept the American annexation of Texas and concede more than half the rest of Mexican territory, ...
For us Mexicans, this is the chance for a kind of reconquest. Surely not the physical reconquest of the territories that once were ours. Nor an indemnification that should have been much greater than the feeble amount of $15 million that the American government paid, in installments, for the stolen land. We need a reconquest of the memory of that war so prodigal in atrocities inspired by racial prejudices and greed for territorial gain.
But the best and most just reparation would be American immigration reform that could open the road to citizenship for the descendants of those Mexicans who suffered the unjust loss of half their territory.
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The Spanish stole the Mexico from the Indians.
Somewhere, Pancho Villa is laughing.
Settled in the Mexican-American war. There is no claim. Mexico owes us and we should kick out all of their nationals who don’t have work papers. Visitors of course can stay until they’re time here runs out and we can have a normal relationship with our neighbor.
They gave that all up . . . after we defeated them in the Mexican-American War. That door closed a long time ago.
I’ll abide by the Navaho vote.
Glad to see them admitting it in print - in Carlos Slim’s newspaper, no less.
Undoubtedly the Left agrees with them.
But they only want the material wealth the gringos created.
And as for citizenship, and the right to rule us, forget it.
That’s war.
The United States gave American citizenship to Mexicans in the U.S. when we annexed these territories. Their descendants are American citizens.
Those Mexicans in the US today who are not citizens had to have been born in Mexico - and they ARE Mexicans, not Americans.
How about instead we take Mexico and make it a safe-haven or zone for Mexicans we then deport from the US?
I think we should start conducting military operations against the Cartels inside Mexico instead. we should waterboard them until they tell us our money is and then we should take our money and use it to build the wall.
I don’t think it’s funny. California is theirs already. Why are we letting these rotten ingrates abuse us.
If the land still belonged to Mexico it would be just as bad as the rest of the country. We became what we are because of the people, culture and values, and rule of law.
Yeah, but ya know, the lyin’ king might have gone for it. Just to keep the peace of course.
“...more than half the rest of Mexican territory...”
And it was the half with all of the paved roads, too.
Mexicans have no claim, their reconquista por la raza is mierda and the NYT is staffed by Pendejos. It would be more logical to say that New York should be returned to the Indians that were cheated out of it.
Didn’t we save them from the French?
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