Officials from south of the border have decided to chime in on the Los Angeles anti-ICE riots, and they really shouldn't have. In a bizarre rant, Mexican Senate President Gerardo Fernández Noroña claimed "we'll build the wall," but qualified that it would be along the 1830 borders, suggesting an invasion of the United States. 

What followed that was a litany of ahistorical nonsense surrounding Mexicans in what is now American territory, including the claim that this is the "homeland" of the riotous illegal immigrants currently burning cars and assaulting law enforcement officials in California. 

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President of the Mexican Senate (TODAY):

"We'll build the wall and pay for it. But we'll do it according to the 1830 map of Mexico... Mexicans were settled in these territories before the U.S. The Mexicans living there are in what has always been their homeland." pic.twitter.com/dvN6efNiSr

— COMBATE |🇵🇷 (@upholdreality) June 9, 2025

If Mr. Noroña would like U.S. troops to occupy Mexico City for a third time, I suppose that can be arranged, but I'd advise against it. I'd also advise he pick up a history book and read the section concerning how the current borders of the United States were established. For example, the claim that California, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming were stolen from Mexico is abject nonsense. 

Instead, the reality is a tale as old as time: When you lose wars, you lose territory. 

I know that's something the global left doesn't understand, whether we are talking about the Mexicans or the Palestinians, but no one cares about faux claims of intersectionality when it comes to the realpolitik of national boundaries. Texas won its independence and chose to join the United States, and no one made the Mexicans fire on U.S. troops when General Taylor marched his 4,000 men into the Nueces Strip. 

Did President James Polk "provoke" that response, knowing the Mexicans were all hot under the collar over Texas joining the union? Frankly, I don't care. The Mexicans started a war, and we finished it. Further, all of the territory being claimed by Noroña was legally sold to the United States as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. 

Putting that part of this aside, though, were Mexicans deeply and historically tied to the land in question before the Mexican-American War? The answer is no. There were only around 10,000 Mexicans in an area of almost 950,000 square miles. It was essentially uninhabited land, and those who were there had only been there a few decades, having been given large swaths of land by the Spanish-derived Mexican government as part of its colonial efforts. Those settlers weren't indigenous. It was not their "homeland," and it is not the homeland of any modern Mexican illegal immigrant either. 

This is the attitude Mexican officials have, though. They believe they have some say in American policy based on the fact that millions of their citizens have illegally crossed the U.S. border. That's not how any of this works, and thankfully, all of the territory isn't part of Mexico any longer. If it were, we all know it'd just be more land for the drug cartels because the Mexicans can't put together a functioning government. 

But hey, if Noroña wants to bring back the 1830s borders, he's welcome to try. Let's see how that works out for him. 

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