Ben Whedon
The ongoing riots in Los Angeles regarding the enforcement of immigration law adopted a definitely nationalist character, and the riots and supporters refer to the earlier property of Mexico of most Western United States to demand heritage and connect with the land that precedes American property.
“This is our city and it was Mexico! You can’t throw us out of the earth that was ours” One riots shouted In a viral film.
Such claims came not only from the riots, but from the personality of the media and older Mexican leaders, with some perilous intervention in demonstrations, and even organized mobilization on behalf of their “compatriots”.
The United States acquired a huge part of the current territory in the Mexican-American war (1846–1848). What began with the annexation of the Republic of Texas became a total war in which the US acquired California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. The war ended with the Guadalupe-Hidalgo treaty, and the US later bought a tiny amount of border land to build a railway line in buying Gadsden.
Attracting significant attention in the media were clamorous images and recordings of riots, clearly displaying Mexican flags, often compiled with burning vehicles of the destroyed real estate.
The riots allegedly began in response to a series of immigration and customs (ICE) in Los Angeles, including in Home Depot locations, as suggested by the deputy chief of the White Staff of the House of Stephen Miller. Home Depot is the world’s largest houses in the world with about 475,000 employees and over 2,300 stores in the USA, Canada and Mexico.
The illegal are known in the parking lot of their facilities, hoping that they will secure work eternal from people working on their homes or other projects.
The myth of the founder of Aztlán
Earlier political movements focused on Latinos in the United States cited AztlánThe legendary homeland of the Aztecs before their arrival in Mexico. The former Mexican territories in the United States have long been speculated as Aztlán and that theory has been playing a significant role in Spanish politics for decades.
For example, political activists in the 1960s and ’70s said that Spanish speakers regained what they considered their family homeland from English users.
In contemporary contexts, the myth of Aztlan has adopted some significance in the context of immigration debate, and experts refer to the earlier property of Mexico territory, and even some groups Creating a flag represent the region.
At least one group opposes ice raids this month, an extremely leftist group of activists Union del Barrio, recalls Aztlán in his manifesto, calling “oppressed people” in “Aztlan/México Ocupado (occupied Mexico), regardless of national origin and citizenship to join the process of revolutionary building socialist;
Group members were filmed attempt to disrupt During ICE surgery on Sunday and actively in a local reaction to ice rallies.
Media, Mexican politicians
Although the word “Aztlán” was basically not the mainstream in the current iteration of protests, some narratives behind this movement penetrated media discourse. Saying, for example, on MSNBC, for example, a former Univision anchor Maria Elena Salinas He emphasized the historical property of Mexico in the South -Western United States, especially in Los Angeles.
“I was born in La. That’s where my roots are there. That’s where I started my career,” she said. It’s almost 50% Latinos. Remember that California was part of Mexico. The whole southwest is Mexico, so the roots are really deep in this region. “
“And what they say, no, not in our community, because when they come, even though there is a second, third, fourth, fifth generation, Latinos who live there, Mexican Americans live there,” she added. “Some of them may be members of their family, people who go. This is personal for them.”
Mexican president of the Senate Gerardo Fernández Noroña On Monday, he referred to the earlier property of Mexico on Earth to claim that the Latin population in the South -Western United States had a national heritage there.
“I was in Trump Tower, when President Elek Donald Trump said which for the first time was sixteen days after taking office as a president, I intend to accept this role. And I said:” Yes, we will build a wall and pay for it. But we will do it according to the map of Mexico from 1830, “he said on the floor of the Senate this week. Gerardo raised a map of Mexican borders from 1830 during these comments, showing Texas and California as part of his country.
“Perhaps one -third, at least a quarter of North America, was part of Mexico until 1846. We were deprived of these territories,” he added. “We were settled there before the nation is currently known as the United States. The Guadalupe-Hidalgo treaty establishes rights for people settled in those territories that were not respected.”
“Thanks to this geography, they can talk about the liberation of Los Angeles and California, the United States government? You will free them from whom? Mexican men and women settled in this place, they are settled in their homeland,” he insisted.
Demographic data cut this concept
Despite the claims of Latin leaders that their communities have constant connections with once Mexican land preceding American acquisition, the size of the Latin population is undeniably a recent phenomenon. Since their acquisition by American countries, Spanish speakers have actually appeared in former Mexican territories, but the overwhelming majority of Latinos in these areas are newer newcomers.
For example, in 1970, a non-Polish white population in California was almost 80% While Latinos constituted just over 10% of the population. The condition was 57% white in 2000 and 26% of Latinos. In 1850, shortly after its acquisition, Universal census office California was reported as 99.0% of white and 1.0% black, and Latinos were statistically insignificant. Until 1910, the white population dropped to 95.0%, from 0.9% black, 0.7% of native Americans, 3.4% Islander Asian and Pacific and other groups listed as statistically irrelevant. The universal census office appointed Latinos for the first time in 1940.
Economics causes a foreign contribution
While the riots in Los Angeles provided Mexican officials to some extent, the higher management in Mexico City explained that he sees planned taxes on monetary messages in the “large, beautiful account” as an issue of at least a comparable substance to deportation.
“If necessary, we will mobilize. We do not want taxes on monetary messages from our compatriots. From the USA to Mexico” Sheinbaum said This week. “A large, beautiful bill” in a form that matches home covers 3.5% tax on cash, although some Republicans of the Senate suggested that this number is definitely too low. Senator Eric SchmittR-Mo., This week introduced regulations regarding the rate of up to 15%.
Many immigrant employees send funds back to their countries, including Mexico. This country received an estimated USD 62.53 billion in monetary messages from the United States in 2024. The nation has a sum GDP in the amount of USD 1.85 trillionWhich means that monetary messages constitute about 3.4% of the Mexican economy.
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Ben Whedon joined the information team in March 2022. After prior action as the editor and national security reporter Breitbart News.
Picture “Protesting Anti-Ay” by Nick Shirley; Photo “Aztlán Flag” by Victoria Bernal CCNC2.0.
