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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMaybe Mexico should make the U.S. pay for territory stolen from Mexico
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Maybe Mexico should make the U.S. pay for territory stolen from Mexico (Original Post)
left-of-center2012
Jan 2017
OP
The fifth and sixth generation Californios I know want NOTHING to do with Mexico
Brother Buzz
Jan 2017
#6
dhol82
(9,353 posts)1. That should make heads explode.
marybourg
(12,634 posts)2. I did read some where - undoubtedly
here on DU - That the Mexican Presidente said that if tRump tries to re-negotiate NAFTA, he would seek to recind the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
metroins
(2,550 posts)3. Texas was not stolen. Nt
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)4. "Texas was not stolen"
Ask Mexico.
They'd (probably) say "The Yankee settlers stole it."
Texans would (probably) say "We liberated it".
metroins
(2,550 posts)8. Santa Anna lost to Sam Houston at San Jacinto
and it was signed over.
Mexico lost Texas in a war.
Not stolen.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)9. Yeah, I know. That's American history.
As the saying goes,
The victors write the History".
WillowTree
(5,325 posts)10. And don't forget, it was the Texans who won that war, not the US.
Texas was an independent republic for 10 years before they joined the USA.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,856 posts)5. Their military should contact Charles Atlas.
Trump's going to be a bully here and around the world because it's his nature.
Brother Buzz
(36,458 posts)6. The fifth and sixth generation Californios I know want NOTHING to do with Mexico
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)7. This isn't about what Americans (or Californios) want
It's about Mexico,
asking for stolen land to be returned,
if Trump builds his wall.
And the O. P. is in jest.