If California,texas, new mexico etc. were to be given back to Mexico ( they want it) what good would that do?
489915
There is a group of Leftist Mexicans spewing propaganda, trying to make their people believe all their weird theories. It's just lately that people are starting to believe it. This group is trying to do what the Palestinians have done for years. In my opinion the Mexican people are too smart to take their bait.\n\nHey Savage, tell my friend Michael hi for me, and thank him for getting me to join the "Paul Revere Society"
630580
I would give the CA, but keep AZ and TX.  Seems like California is the only state that is truly promoting their interests.  Let them have it.  (not kidding) lol
327748
there are lots of benefits. here they are:\n~all the mexican residents would have to pay taxes. \n~if they couldn't afford them, they would have to get jobs, which we could suppy them with if we invaded mexico. \n~we would have cabo and other vacation areas bring in tourism.\n~we would have to educate them, so then the mexicans would be educated \n~they would have to learn our laws\n\nconclusion:in many generations, mexico/america would have educated people, more jobs, and less poverty. \n\nhere are the downsides:\n~we would have a lot of people to educate\n~they would have to learn english or we would have to learn spanish\n~we would have more spanish channels\n~we would have to expand our government\n~we'd probably have higher crime rates, and more people in jail\n\nconclusion: it would be a long hard process but if americans are up to it i say go for it.
1052424
I heard about it,and evidently there is truth to it!! I live in Arizona,and illegals have just about taken over the state!!!!! But, what the ILLEGALS and mexico FAILS to mention,is the U.S. PAID mexico for these territorys,which are NOW Arizona,New Mexico,Texas,and California.
627502
The Zimmerman Note. This would initially allow Mexico to invade the U.S., and if and when the Central Powers won the entire war, Mexico, in return, would receive their lost territories that were under U.S. control. (Texas, California, Arizona, and Nevada).\n\nHowever, U.S. Intelligence intercepted this Zimmerman Note and published this announcement through U.S. newspapers. This more than enraged Americans to go to war with Germany for proposing such a deal to Mexico.
545562
I don't usually harp on errors but you have some typos that make your question confusing.\n\nFirst of all, I understand that perhaps 3/4 of California Senators have supported various illegal immigrant benefits, such as the driver's license benefit you mentioned, which the Governor has vetoed twice on National Security grounds.  (I think he wants a secure border so we aren't giving drivers licenses to terrorists.)\n\nI don't think that regardless of what the Senate says, the United States would let California succeed from the Union.  Look what happened to the Southern States when they tried it.  \n\nIf it did happen, the repercussions would be great, and the Minutemen would build a fence on the Nevada, etc. border. I would help them, as long as they let me run to their side with my family before it went up.\n\nIt won't happen, though.  Amongst other things, I think people are right when they say that if Mexican illegal immigrants wanted to be in Mexico, they would have stayed there.  They want to be in the United States so that they can benefit from the opportunities inherent in the United States' culture and economy.   Mexico does not offer those benefits, and adding a new 'state' wouldn't change the basic nature of the country.
683697
Go to Mexico.  They have all left for here.
768350
I think they're right on the money in wanting to distance themselves from the 'we want spanish' crowd. They left Mexico etc. for a reason. To assimilate someplace, you gotta buckle down and learn the language, at least give it an honest effort. No one expects perfection, but a good-faith effort would be good.
1019649
It may sound cruel but all benefits must be stopped to the illegals. Period. That goes for the children they have too. If we can get the guts to deny them it is possible they will leave. I think I read where Texas is sending a bill to Mexico for services to the illegals.  That is a great idea.  Hold Mexican assets and take the cost of services to their citizens. Mexico would then do something about the boarder.
549850
The only salvation for Mexico's corrupt society is to force the U.S. to take upon itself all the millions of Mexican citizens it cannot find jobs for, homes for, schools for, hospitals for, or prisons for. Mexico looks to the U.S. as a source of remittance income, the hugely valuable drug trade, and a dumping grounds for the societal problems it has no ability, stomach, or interest to tackle as any other respectable nation would.
742156
How will it be partitioned? I'm  sure Mexico would want the desert Southwest.
865956
Hey!!! Are you  ok,,,You could walk to Mexico, not to the others countries. Do you mean that the US government should make their government pay for their transportation. Yes,,, I do agreed with you.. even though the US government had try it and those country have refused. Like China, they don't even accept their own citizen back and the USA get stuck with the illegal Chinese.
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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.
313308
it's not right because innocent people that are trying to get by are being sent away.  We should have mexico become one of our states.
832760
No but the US would be better off without ILLEGAL Mexicans\n\nThe US looses $5 Billion each year to Illegal Immigrants sending money back to Mexico... And that's JUST in Texas... In Southern California its $25 Billion...  It's destroying the US economy\n\nNo... this situation does not compare in the least to the AA community
575232
I agree.  The idea that you can drive over the border for a visit and then stay for a couple of days and have your baby here free, because they can't refuse them medical help, then they get free food stamps and everything else that goes along with it.  I have mexican friends who are legal here and they say that the ones who come in illegally know all the tricks to get money from the government that we who live here know nothing about.  Their friends show them the ropes.  This is wrong.  CHANGE Mexico first.  It is a great country with lots of resources but a corrupt government.  The people have to change it there first.  We are overrun with illegals here in TEXAS.
1103889
That's what I say. Tear it all down and give it back. Let them flood in and see what good they get out of it. It will be as pathetic as the rest of Mexico.