I read on some other Web site that "Reconquista" originally meant the expulsion of Muslims occupiers from Spain ( Al Andalus).
We relinquish: Not one square inch. Not one grain of sand.
California is incredibly valuable real estate with great natural resources, rich agricultural land, and major Pacific seaports. Plus all those mineral rights.
WE get to keep it.
An independent Mexico had ruled for about 12 years when neglect of the common defense and economy had led to multiple rebellions, of which at least Texas’ thankfully succeeded. Yet for the cause of those few years of incompetent rule the modern nation basically has as its third rail of politics that they’ve a right to have it all back.
They use, or rather abuse, the idea of a reconquest that once stood for the noble and pure ends of repelling Islam from Christian Spain as if it also could apply. It is a shameful thing!
Mexico has rational and strict immigration laws ... but we are somehow cast as racists for wanting to enforce any at all?