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Re:Will Mexico Get Half of Its Territory Back? by pmyteh on Saturday April 08, 2017 @06:42AM (#14066307)
The article's quite clear that there's no possibility of the territories being returned (and, indeed, that the lawsuit probably won't even be successful). But this is a political act, not really a legal one, and the aim isn't really to recover Texas.
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Re:Will Mexico Get Half of Its Territory Back? by jacquesm on Saturday April 08, 2017 @06:44AM (#14066313)
It's theater.
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Re:Will Mexico Get Half of Its Territory Back? by Entalpi on Saturday April 08, 2017 @06:48AM (#14066325)
It's about making a point, bring awareness, create a forum for discussion, spreading information.
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Re:Will Mexico Get Half of Its Territory Back? by dogma1138 on Saturday April 08, 2017 @06:55AM (#14066338)
No, it's theater it's like Russia trying to claim back Alaska, they probably have a better legal ground and a much bigger agency trying to (re)enforce that request via other means.
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Re:Will Mexico Get Half of Its Territory Back? by jacquesm on Saturday April 08, 2017 @06:56AM (#14066342)
No, it is dredging up an old cow in order to push back against the idiocy of Trump.

Sinking to the level of your opponent isn't going to improve matters. I sympathize with the Mexicans in the current situation, there is a lot to be worried about. But any kind of solution or argument should face a practicality test first and this one will simply waste a whole bunch of time.

It would be akin to the Dutch and the Germans going back a few hundred years in order to redraw our borders (or better yet, the Poles, the (Bela)-Russians and the Germans).

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