In a dramatic address today, the President of the Mexican Senate declared that Mexican protesters rioting in Los Angeles are simply defending their ancestral homeland—claiming the land “belongs to them.”

Senate Leader Gerardo Fernández Noroña also declared that Mexico will “build the wall… and pay for it”—not along the current U.S.–Mexico boundary, but in accordance with the nation’s 1830 cartographic borders.

“We’ll build the wall and pay for it,” the Senate leader declared. “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.”

The claim resurrects long-dormant grievances tied to lands lost after the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, encompassing modern-day California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

The salvo from the Mexican Senate lands amid fresh diplomatic sparring, as Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s threat to “mobilize” against Trump’s threat to remittances has added fuel to the fire of growing geopolitical tensions.

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Responding to a Republican-backed proposal to tax money transfers leaving the United States—a move framed as a crackdown on cartel financing—Sheinbaum issued a defiant statement defending the billions in annual remittances sent home by Mexican nationals.

“If necessary, we’ll mobilize,” she warned. “We reject any tax on the hard-earned remittances sent by our compatriots in the U.S. to their families in Mexico.”

Meanwhile, the Trump administration recently issued an executive order to rename the “Gulf of Mexico” the “Gulf of America.”

Although the U.S. House has since approved legislation enforcing the new name and several U.S. agencies, along with Google and Apple, have obliged domestically, Mexico has refused to acknowledge the change.

President Claudia Sheinbaum led the charge, dismissing the renaming as a symbolic jab, affirming it remains the “Gulf of Mexico” internationally, and even mockingly suggested “Mexican America” as a possible counter-naming tactic.