So, let's use your Mexico example. Mexico decides that its citizens (who may or may not have declared independence) in S. California are being "oppressed." How would you feel about Mexico invading and annexing a portion of S. California?
So, let’s use your Mexico example. Mexico decides that its citizens (who may or may not have declared independence) in S. California are being “oppressed.” How would you feel about Mexico invading and annexing a portion of S. California?
Does California have autonomy within the USA and the right to vote to secede? Is there a Mexican military base in California by legal right?
Also, it has to meet the definition of repressed. You know when guys with Swastikas march in a nation’s capital as part of the new govt - parts of that nation that don’t like living under Nazi affiliated rule do have a human right to leave.