“But the United States does not recognize the compulsory jurisdiction of the court in contentious cases.”Nonetheless, juridical reasoning is one thing, political reasoning another. The United States owes Mexico and itself an honest reconsideration of its first imperial war, not only in its schools and universities but also in its museums and books. A third sin should be added to these: the aggression against Mexico and the plundering of its territory. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThree centuries before the ancestors of Mr. Trump landed on United States soil, there were Mexicans in that northern territory known as New Spain and Mexico. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyBut the best and most just reparation would be American immigration reform that could open the road to citizenship for the descendants of those Mexicans who suffered the unjust loss of half their territory.

Source: New York Times April 06, 2017 08:26 UTC