{"id":16146,"date":"2018-01-08T16:18:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T21:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=16146"},"modified":"2018-12-28T11:52:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T16:52:04","slug":"groups-mexico-push-reclaim-california-end-hidalgo-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/01\/08\/groups-mexico-push-reclaim-california-end-hidalgo-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"Groups in Mexico Push to Reclaim California, End Hidalgo Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"

As open borders lobbyists push for an amnesty by way of a \u201cDACA fix\u201d or the DREAM Act, others are challenging the legitimacy of the current U.S. \u2013 Mexico border.\u00a0 Some prominent Mexicans are making the case that Mexico should return to its 1848 boundaries, by eliminating the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, a treaty that gave the U.S. large swaths of territory in the southwest.\u00a0 These were territories that were in dispute after the end of Spanish colonial rule in the area. At the end of the Mexican-American War, some 90 percent of residents in these territories chose to become U.S. citizens rather than Mexican citizens.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Mexican community on both sides of the border must be in solidarity and demand that the government go before the International Court of Justice of the United Nations and demand the revocation of the Hidalgo Treaty and compensation in the form of citizenship.\u201d\u00a0 Reads a statement from the group Mexico Defends Yours.<\/a> \u201cEnough is enough! Stop the deportations!\u201d<\/p>\n

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(Treaty of Hidalgo from Library of Congress)<\/em><\/p>\n

The group attempts to make the case that territory in certain states was illegally gained by the United States Army during the Mexican \u2013 American War.\u00a0 And so there is no such thing as an illegal alien.\u00a0 \u201cWe are one, with or without papers,\u201d they allege.<\/p>\n

Separately, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, a left-wing politician and former presidential candidate in Mexico, has also called for the Mexican Government to bring a lawsuit against the U.S. in the International Court of Justice.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cardenas\u2019 attorney has promised to make a<\/a> \u201cstrong and tough case\u2026 They [The U.S. Army] were in Mexican territory in a military invasion.\u201d Acknowledging the practical impossibility of recovering lost territory, Cardenas instead wants monetary compensation for the United States use of the land over the past 168 years. In order for Cardenas case to be taken up, Mexico\u2019s President Enrique Pena Nieto would have to adopt the suit.\u00a0 Nieto has declined to do so, but it could become an issue during Mexico\u2019s next presidential election in July 2018.<\/p>\n

Cardenas currently leads the organization \u201cPor Mexico Hoy<\/a>\u201d or \u201cFor Mexico Today,\u201d which according to its mission statement seeks to build \u201ctowards a sovereign country, of equals with justice and freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n

The thought that Cardenas\u2019 and other groups would be making a push for Mexico to recover losses because of an \u201cillegal\u201d occupation by the U.S. in states like California is ironic, to say the least.\u00a0 California has become a sanctuary state, harboring millions of illegal immigrants, the majority of whom are from Latin America. <\/a>\u00a0California Governor Jerry Brown has even begun pardoning illegal aliens facing deportation.<\/p>\n

This type of deference to illegal aliens by states like California has clearly emboldened some of the open border lobby in Mexico.\u00a0 But make no mistake, even if such a lawsuit to end the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is taken up by the Pena Nieto administration it likely has a slim chance of ever succeeding in the courts.<\/p>\n

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(Picture of Left-Wing Mexican politician Cuauhtemoc Cardenas)<\/p><\/div>