is making mexico part of the united state a good idea?
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LA RAZA...Humanitarian????\n\nI Havent Laughed THIS Hard Since John Belushi \n\nROTFFLMFAOffff\n\nGet A Grip...Humanitarian.. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA\n\nRead My Blog... \nIll Show You 6 Pages Of Just How HUMANITARIAN LA RAZA Is
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We have strong institutions, wich have been built with a lot of effort by the mexican people. \n\nIs a shame to be creating this idea of the election of state, of the goverment having the power to buy all of the media, all of the survey companies, and all of our votes.\n\nIf we loose the confidence in our institutions, what will we have? anything. Is it the time for Mexico to become a country leadered by a dictator, since there is not anyone else around to trust? I don't think so, and i hope all of us are smart enougth to understand it.
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Just look at this:\n1)How do you think nations form? Texas was taken from Mexico by immigrants from the USA. Santa Anna let the immigrants in because he thought it would improve the tax haul from Texas. He didn't see the revolution coming at all.  Sounds a lot like those people who want to bring in Mexicans to save a few bucks....\n\n2)Did anybody expect to see these massive protests divided along race lines?  I was shocked.\n\n3)Most Mexicans believe the the Southwest USA still rightfully belongs to Mexico.  A LOT of Mexican-American's believe that it rightfully belongs to Mexico.\n\n4)If you import enough Mexicans in too short a period of time (so that they do not become TRUE Americans) and give them voting rights, they will become the majority vote in many states.  The easiest states to get would be New Mexico and Arizona.  So, if they become the majority and vote to secede, what do we do?  Start a war?\n\n5)There is an underground movement calling for the return of the Southwest to Mexico.  There is also another movement calling for it to be a separate nation ruled by "the indigenous peoples."\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AuWl8gMRzMTtRBRLQClIWgzsy6IX?qid=1006050101272\n\nThe most important thing to consider here is ethnic strife in other countries.  If you observe what's going on in Sweden and France with the Musim immigrants, you will see how an unassimilated group can cause serious problems.\n\nI don't think the bulk of Americans knew there was such a strong solidarity and anger in the Mexican/hispanic community.  If they can surprise like they did with this, who's to say they won't surprise us again with an even BIGGER request.  I don't think it will happen tomorrow.  But given mass illegal immigration and open borders, it sure could happen within 20 years, provided the Mexicans overwhelm the Southwestern states.
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No, revolutions only bring mayhem and ruin. How about getting rid of Mexico by uniting it with Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and (just for the hell of it) Arizona. It could be called Mexsaldurna! New Mexico could just be Mexico. While we're at it, why not divide North Dakota into Northern Dakota, Northernmost Dakota and The Useless Patch of Land between Northernmost Dakota and Canada. And get rid of upper Michigan. Give it to Canada so we could take that New Brunswick. Next, divide the Carolinas into 23 states, each named Carolina, with minor spelling changes. Also, while I have your attention, we should erase Rhode Island. I don't mean annex it to Massachusetts, I mean erase it. Take a pencil to it, and make a big white space with nothing in it. And do something about Colorado and Wyoming! They look exactly alike in maps, and a square is such a boring shape. Make Wyoming into a triangle, and Colorado into a complex myriagon. Then unify Kansas and Nebraska to form Kanraska, and only let stupid white corn-huskers live there. And, if I could venture out of America for a sec, lets do away with all of these Soviet countries. There are fifteen, but their all so useless, why not make them into four? Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan? Who needs em? Moldova? Make that, new Romania! Now... what were we talking about?
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could be in less than 30 years if the trend does not change. They are human the same as us but need to follow the rules. I favor mining the borders and putting signs up to keep out or else tough sh--. We might as well take over Mexico and get things organized but of course that would mean we have to be organized.  The turmoil in this country has been caused by too many people stuffing their pockets instead of doing the jobs they were elected to do. That includes both parties.
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absolutely, Mexico is a good example.  Where a few super rich control the government.  Have drug lords controling the rest.  Keep the populous in abject poverty.  The brutality is over whelming.  The masses could over throw the few and take back there government and establish one that isn't so corrupt.  That would benefit the people.\nimmigrateing to America while understandable is hardly the answer.
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I actually agree with you, though I wouldn't put it in your terms.  I do think the United States should SERIOUSLY open talks with Mexico about annexing it...that is...making it a territory of the United States like Puerto Rico and Guam,  though not making it a "state" per se.\n\nWhen over 50% of the population of an entire COUNTRY does not want to live there and are trying to immigrate to the U.S., there is a serious problem.  \n\nI'm sympathetic to the economic problems that Mexican citizens are facing, but the U.S. has it's own problems, as well.  NO ONE IN THE WORLD has the right to just go to another country and expect "rights."  Every country...and I do mean EVERY country--even Mexico--has their own immigration rules and laws.  The U.S. is no exception, and I'm not sure why Mexican citizens feel they have the right to simply ignore our laws?\n\nThere is a problem and a lot of those people need help, if the government of Mexico is ill-equipped to help their own people, and they are insistent that flooding the U.S. is the only solution, then I say open the U.S. Mexico border; make Mexico a U.S. territory subject to all of our laws and taxes and give them protection under our military system.  \n\nI have no doubt this would be a mess, but honestly, what the heck are we supposed to do when the majority of Mexicans prefer to live in the U.S. and we can't stop them from flooding across the borders illegally?  It would be better to just open the borders so that citizens AND businesses can cross without restrictions, and that way over time, there will be less incentives to come north.
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The outcome would be a large amnesty, but this issue could be solve by an anchor baby becoming the president of the United States., A Mexican American president Would be very nice. that way we could be a very large country, stronger indeed. I like the Idea.
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I may be silly to treat this as a legitimate question, however:\n\nTheoretically, I'd say let the Mexican's vote on it. I am absolutely certain that those in power would want to stay there and there would be war. However, again theoretically, if that could occur peacefully, and Mexican people wanted it, it might not be a bad idea. We have been able to leverage our natural resources into taking care of our people (and much of the world's overflow) well enough that people are trying to come here illegally in floods our immigration policy has determined to be too overwhelming to assimilate legally.\n\nIf we had all of Mexico's natural resources, I don't see any reason why we couldn't do the same thing there, after which they might be happy with their own land, and we would all love to visit them. \n\nI like Mexicans, when they aren't illegally draining education funds to support multilingual education to the point where it is impossible to educate my own kids to the level I am paying for as a taxpayer. I think they are hard working, have wonderful family values, and are warm people on an individual basis. I wouldn't mind at all being in the same country with them if they brought their natural resources with them so that we could leverage them to pay for the additional population, at an American lifestyle level.\n\nHowever, we went into Iraq with all the best intentions (I hope), and look what happened there. We thought the Kurds and Shiites would magically bond to install a unified government, and never considered that our enemies in the terrorist world would be so threatened they would gather in Iraq to make life for innocent citizens there a living hell.\nI gave my confidence to our government when we went over, assuming they had more information than I did, and I still thing they did what they thought was best. However, when you remove the lid from a pressure cooker, things can blow up.\n\nIn a theoretical world, I think the idea is possible, if the Mexican's wanted it. In the real world, I think we'd better fix our crystal ball before we try to 'fix' someone else's country.\n\nHaving said that, I don't want our lifestyle to become reduced just because it is better than that of our neighbors. I think we need to set a reasonable immigration policy and enforce it. We can only absorb so much and still keep our culture recognizable. Granted that every immigrating group has added flavor to the mix, I don't agree one group should come in here illegally and try to dominate the home culture by their numbers. \n\nI do not speak of race. I am speaking of assimilation. I am also thinking of a balance of immigration which includes other countries besides those physically closest to us. \n\nSorry. Too long.
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The Southwest belongs to the United States. It has since the 1800s. Why all of a sudden, are people claiming it belongs to Mexico? If Mexico wants it, then Mexico can just try to fucking take it. I'll be waiting for them, along with millions of other service members and armed citizens.
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No, invading Mexico would only create more problems. We already have enough.   Just seal up the border, and enforce ALL of our immigration laws and deport all illegals upon discovery .....do all that there won't be a need to invade Mexico.
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You are right, Mexico should be a powerful nation. It seems they don't have the will power to force change in the right places. When a country builds it's economy from the currency of another nation there economic base becomes very unstable. Every U.S. Dollar that goes into Mexico serves only to devalue the peso. It has become a catch 22 for them. They need a person who is strong enough to break the strangle hold the drug families have on that nation.
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Sure, Sam Houston beat the Mexican Army back in 1836, then the US military had beaten them again 1848. There is plenty of oil there to help out with growth not to mention the labor pool that has improved their skill in the past 30 years.  Mexico being added to the US would do wonders for the economy, then 70% of the poorest of the population would increase their standard of living into the modern world. But we would have to sink in tons of money in Federal programs to break up all the corruption, that in itself makes it not worth it.
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If it is good enough for Mexico...then it's good enough for them to abide by.\n\nI'm so tired of the hypocrisy...Sick and tired of the Politically correct mentality...\n\nEveryone should commit to abandoning the "I'm sorry" behavior...always apologizing for being an American.
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Nothing New About It\n\nhttp://www.limitstogrowth.org/WEB-text/aztlan.html\n\nIn 1997, then-President Zedillo proclaimed that \n“I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation \nextends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring the ''conquista,'' \nSpain tried to impose on Mexico \na common western language, religion, and culture, \nand to the degree it was successful.  \nIt was also anti-American.  \nWe should remember \nthat the Spaniards were building the great cathedral \nat the Zocolo in Mexico City \na hundred years before George Washington \ntook control of the Continental Army \nat Cambridge, Massachusetts.  \nHere are two different world views, sharing the same continent.\n\nIn his article, Clash of Civilizations?, \nSamuel P. Huntington reminds us \nthat cultural differences may cause future wars, \nand that these wars will be along cultural ''fault lines.''  \n\nThe U. S.--Mexican border is one of those fault lines.  \n\nHuntington writes, \n''Civilization identity will be increasingly important in the future,\nand the world will be shaped in large measure \nby the interactions among seven or eight major civilizations \n\nThe most important conflicts of the future \nwill occur along the cultural fault lines \nseparating these civilizations from one another.'' \n\nIn regard to Mexico, Huntington writes, \n''During the past decade, \nMexico has assumed a position \nsomewhat similar to that of Turkey. \nJust as Turkey abandoned its historic opposition to Europe \nand attempted to join Europe, \nMexico has stopped defining itself \nby its opposition to the United States \nand is instead attempting to imitate the United States.''  \nHowever, \nunlike Canada, \nMexico has a large, nonwestern, indigenous population \nthat has not yet been integrated into modernity.  \nThis native population also carries \nan unconscious weight of resentment \ntowards the Spanish conquest, \nwhich it now mistakenly displaces onto the U. S. \n\nMexico's indigenous population \nis one of the contemporary strains in that society.  \nSub-Comandante Marcos \nand the uprising in Chiapas of indigenous people \nis a prediction of what is to come in Mexico \nif that strain cannot be relieved.\n  \nThe Mexican elites have decided, therefore, \nto reduce this strain by sending north \nas many poor and jobless Mexicans as they can.  \nInstead of solving their own problems, \nwhich might entail a reduction of their status, \nthe ruling Mexican elites have decided to keep the fiesta going\nand let the U. S. handle the cleanup. \n\nA top adviser \nto past Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari \ndescribed to Huntington all the changes \nthe Salinas government was making.  \nWhen the advisor finished, Huntington remarked: \n''That's most impressive.  \nIt seems to me that basically you want to change Mexico \nfrom a Latin American country into a North American country.''\nHe looked at me with surprise and exclaimed: \n''Exactly!  \nThat's precisely what we are trying to do, \nbut of course we could never say so publicly.'' \n \nWhat also could not be said publicly \nis that Mexico wants to reclaim its ''lost'' territory.  \nIt will use economics and illegal immigrants to do this.\n\nMany Mexican elites believe that to become a modern nation,\nMexico has to restructure its economy \nand regain the territory it lost during the first Mexican war.  \nFor over a century, \nMexican nationalists have used the myths and symbols \nof a lost but glorious indigenous past \nto motivate its plans for expansion. \n \nD. H. Lawrence wrote about this myth building in his novel, \nThe Plumed Serpent. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf the ''reconquista'' continues unchecked \nfor the next twenty years, \nthe U. S. will be a fundamentally different society than it is today.\n\nThere will be more poverty and low-wage jo
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I have been thinking of this.I do not like the idea about a 60' wall with armed gaurds,it reminds me of Germany(remember what happened to that wall).And a chain link fence isn't going to do any good.Here in Texas we have the river(where thousands have died).Maybe a fence with a road that runs along aside it with border patrol agents every 50' or so.They would still find a way.Believe me.But at least there would always be someone out ther looking.And if they damaged the fence they would know about it and could do something.\nAnother thing is coyotes.They should penalize the coyotes heavily.They expolit these ppl in ways you could not imagine.And there are countless that have died at thier hands.\nI also think that America should forgive Mexico's debt.And big companies that own alot in Mexico should  sell it to Mexican companies so that the money stays in Mexico for Mexicans.Make their life better over there.Mexico also needs to reform their labor laws.The good jobs in Mexico are hand picked by the government.So basically you can't succeed unless your hand picked by the government.\nThere is so much.Someone told me once that charity begins at home.That sound like a good idea.They are close to home.
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Deporting and stopping illegal immigration will be great for Mexico actually. It will force the mexicans to change their ways and may be fix the problems of pollution, corruption in government, and overpopulation. They could become a normal country or another canada. then I would be in favor of some kind of open-border North american union thing.\nOr mexicans can live in the same hellhole they always were in.\n\nIllegal immigrants our loyal to Mexico and they made it clear. Saying things like "STOLEN CONTINENTS!" even though their ancestors were spanish (EUROPEANS) too. Also, mexicans' ancestors never lived in North america, the north american indians lived there.\n\nillegal Mexicans wave Mexican flags to basically say "we hate america and are loyal to Mexico, we're just here for the money and to leach off of your system!"\n\nIt is time for an Abraham Lincoln of mexico to rise up and heal central america and Mexico. Someone to end corruption. Stop illegals and yet at the same time get closer ties witht he USA.\n\n"I think there are alot of good men already in Mexico, I find it sad that you have never ventured there to find out. You'd have to get off your high horse first."\n\nreally? then why is there still a high crime rate, corruption in government, etc.. in Mexico? Where are these good politians in mexico you are talking about?\n\n"Why didn't those good men ( our founding fathers ) stay home and work to better their own country."\n\nActually, their colonies were apart of their country! New england belonged to Great Britian. So when they "immigrated" there they were actually still in their country and were thus trying to imrpove it.\n\n" USA didn't have to go over sea to find a country to help hell we drive there in a day . Only if Mexico had lots of oil..."\n\nRiiight. Actually the whole Middle East is sitting on oil. We didn't take any oil from Iraq (proven already). Explain why the oil prices are so high? High oil prices don't do any goood to USA.\nand lol, Mexico sits on TONS OF OIL! They supply USA with tons of it already. That is actually what causes a lot of their corruption to, if we can find an alternative source (Ethanol or hydrogen) then Mexico can't rely on rich Oil anymore!