Mexican Senate president says LA is essentially Mexico: I'd ‘pay for the wall’ if it ceded US southwest

Mexico would pay for the U.S. border wall if the border were redrawn to match the 1830s, when much of the American Southwest belonged to Mexico, the country’s Senate president quipped this week.

Gerardo Fernández Noroña spoke in Spanish in Mexico about the U.S. federal immigration raids in Los Angeles, which have sparked violent riots and protests featuring demonstrators waving Mexican flags on U.S. soil.

Critics, including senior Trump advisor Stephen Miller, have branded scenes of people waving the Mexican flag as evidence Los Angeles is "occupied territory."

In that regard, Noroña recounted telling President Donald Trump<...