A Mexican Lawmaker Proposes Revoking Treaties with US if Trump Gets His Way Ishaan Tharoor - The Washington Post
go to original September 6, 2016

A Mexican Senator Plans to Combat Trump Legislation Tit for Tat (wochit News)

Among the Mexican public, Donald Trump’s visit to their country last week went down like an errant cannonball dropped into the Caribbean.

The Republican presidential candidate has been widely reviled for his remarks regarding Mexican immigrants and his far-fetched proposal to make Mexico pay for a wall on its U.S. border. Moreover, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto was pilloried for appearing to give Trump a platform to try to legitimize his agenda in the Mexican capital.

The anger is still boiling and has prompted an opposition lawmaker to present legislation preparing for a potential Trump victory in November. The proposed bill would empower the Mexican government to retaliate against Trump’s potentially hostile policies. This, according to reports, includes giving the Mexican Senate the power to review dozens of existing bilateral treaties with the United States, including the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, where Mexico ceded more than half a million square miles of its territory to the United States.

The proposal, pushed by center-left Sen. Armando RÍos Piter, probably will not pass, but it is a sign of the outrage felt in Mexico over Trump’s rhetoric and the prospect of his presidency. It would make funding Trump’s border wall illegal and call for countermeasures should Trump try to divert the billions of dollars that Mexicans in the United States send home in remittances.

“In cases where the property/assets of (our) fellow citizens or companies are affected by a foreign government, as Donald Trump has threatened, the Mexican government should proportionally expropriate assets and properties of foreigners from that country on our territory,” reads a draft of the bill cited by Reuters.

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