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To: GIdget2004

The Rio Grande is ours, bought and paid for with the lives of American soldiers. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War, 1848, gave the United States ownership of the Rio Grande as a boundary for Texas, and also, ownership of California and a large area comprising roughly half of New Mexico, most of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is correct. We’re not going to give ownership of the Rio Grande to Mexico. It’s ours and we’re keeping it.


9 posted on 03/29/2017 8:04:52 AM PDT by BuffaloJack ("If you're going through Hell, keep going." Winston Churchill)
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To: BuffaloJack

I agree absolutely, well-said.


12 posted on 03/29/2017 8:07:53 AM PDT by owlbaby58
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To: BuffaloJack
Oh hog wash. International borders and the land adjacent to it belong to all Americans and they want a wall and that dirty drainage ditch called Rio Grande(how misnamed) be damned.
13 posted on 03/29/2017 8:09:15 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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