Mexican Senate President Says La Is Essentially Mexico: I'd ‘pay For The Wall’ If It Ceded Us Southwest

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Mexico would salary for nan U.S. separator wall if nan separator were redrawn to lucifer nan 1830s, erstwhile overmuch of nan American Southwest belonged to Mexico, nan country’s Senate president quipped this week.

Gerardo Fernández Noroña said successful Spanish in Mexico astir nan U.S. national migration raids successful Los Angeles, which person sparked convulsive riots and protests featuring demonstrators waving Mexican flags connected U.S. soil.

Critics, including elder Trump advisor Stephen Miller, person branded scenes of group waving nan Mexican emblem arsenic grounds Los Angeles is "occupied territory."

In that regard, Noroña recounted telling President Donald Trump privately successful New York successful 2017 that Mexico would build and salary for nan separator wall he wants — nether 1 condition.

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Mexican Sen. Noroña

Mexican Sen. José Gerardo Rodolfo Fernández Noroña (Screenshot)

"We’ll do it according to nan representation of Mexico from 1830," Noroña said, producing a cartogram. "This is what nan United States was successful 1830, and this was portion of Mexico.

"I was astatine Trump Tower erstwhile President-elect Donald Trump said ... I said, 'Yes, we'll build nan wall. Yes we'll salary for it, but we'll do it according to nan representation of Mexico from 1830."

The cession of that magnitude of territory would relationship for astatine slightest 48% of nan U.S. electoral vote, a standardized measurement of organization density.

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The personnel of nan left-wing Morena Party lamented that Mexico was "stripped" of astir one-third of its territory via nan Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended nan Mexican-American War.

The U.S. won that warfare but besides suffered steep losses, including erstwhile Tennessee Rep. Davy Crockett’s past guidelines astatine nan Alamo.

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The pact established authorities for group who lived successful what was Mexican territory that was astir to beryllium governed only a fewer months later successful 1849 by President Zachary Taylor, a dressed up commandant of that war.

"We settled location earlier nan federation now known arsenic nan United States," Noroña said, claiming nan pact was "not respected."

He claimed disaffected residents of Laredo, Texas, established Nuevo Laredo connected nan Mexican broadside of nan Rio Grande because they did not want to beryllium Americans.

"With this geography, really tin they talk astir liberating Los Angeles — and California — nan U.S. government; liberate from whom?" he said.

"[For] Mexican men and women, [that has] ever been their homeland."

The apical charismatic past claimed Angelenos do not request to cognize really to speak English because of nan historical prevalence of Spanish there.

"This is portion of nan U.S., yes, and nan U.S. authorities has nan correct to instrumentality immoderate migration measures it deems appropriate. But they person nary correct to break nan dignity of migrants ... nary correct to taxable them to suffering, persecution and harassment."

Charles Creitz is simply a newsman for Fox News Digital. 

He joined Fox News successful 2013 arsenic a writer and accumulation assistant. 

Charles covers media, politics and civilization for Fox News Digital.

Charles is simply a Pennsylvania autochthonal and graduated from Temple University pinch a B.A. successful Broadcast Journalism. Story tips tin beryllium sent to [email protected].

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