1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo remains hot topic

 

(Albuquerque Journal) Republican Congressman Steve Pearce of New Mexico has introduced a bill aimed at giving Hispanic families stronger measures to review claims of lost lands under the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo – the treaty that ended the U.S.-Mexican War.
Meanwhile, New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas announced last week he is seeking to void a 2003 land transfer from a historic Hispanic land grant in New Mexico to a Colorado group on grounds it was illegal.
Here’s why the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo remains a hot topic in the American Southwest more than 160 years after the war ended: Continued