The Republican presidential candidate has been widely reviled
for his remarks regarding Mexican immigrants and his far-fetched
proposal to make Mexico pay for a wall on its U.S. border. Moreover,
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto was pilloried for appearing to give Trump a platform to try to legitimize his agenda in the Mexican capital
.
The
anger is still boiling and has prompted an opposition lawmaker to
present legislation preparing for a potential Trump victory in
November. The proposed bill would empower the Mexican government to
retaliate against Trump's potentially hostile policies. This, according
to reports, includes giving the Mexican Senate the power to review
dozens of existing bilateral treaties with the United States, including
the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, where Mexico ceded more than half a million square miles of its territory to the United States.
The
proposal, pushed by center-left Sen. Armando RÍos Piter, probably will
not pass, but it is a sign of the outrage felt in Mexico over Trump's
rhetoric and the prospect of his presidency. It would make funding
Trump's border wall illegal and call for countermeasures should Trump
try to divert the billions of dollars that Mexicans in the United
States send home in remittances.
"In cases where the
property/assets of (our) fellow citizens or companies are affected by a
foreign government, as Donald Trump has threatened, the Mexican
government should proportionally expropriate assets and properties of
foreigners from that country on our territory," reads a draft of the bill cited by Reuters.
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