did the U.S. military ever patrol the american  mexican boder?
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Both during WW1 and 2
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im not sure but i think in spanish class they  said that if youre a minor you cant cross the boder to Mexico
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I doubt it. It is possible. I have a Mexican aquaintance who joined the Army in Los Angeles during the Viet Nam war, is a decorated veteran. He was an illegal alien then, is living in Mexico and is a Plant Manager. No I have no idea how he got away with joining.
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Yes...and the unfortunate thing is they(Mexicans) have unwitting American citizens who are helping them. Some of whom have ideas to place provisions in the desert to support the invasion.
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First of all, you have several different events mixed together here.  The United States did not take Texas from Mexico in a war (just or otherwise).  A number of settlers in Texas (primarily Americans who had immigrated to Mexico) staged a rebellion in 1836 to break away from Mexico and form their own independant country (The Republic of Texas).  Although the United States did provide some support for the rebels, it was not a war between the US and Mexico and no US troops were directly involved.  Texas was an independant country separate from the US for almost 10 years before it decided to join the US as a state in 1845.\n\nOn the other hand, much of New Mexico was taken from Mexico following the Mexican-American War of 1848 with the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildago.  In this war, there is little doubt that the US was looking to start a fight as a pretext for getting land (the reason for the war - Mexican troops supposedly crossing the Rio Grande River - was dubious at best).  \n\nHowever, the lower one third of New Mexico did not become part of the US until it was purchased (along with southern Arizona) in 1856 at a cost of $10 million dollars.  It is true that Mexico was ruled by a dictator at the time, but then it was for most of the 19th century and $10 million was probably a pretty fair price for that time period considering how remote and undeveloped the area was.\n\nAs for if the Mexican-American War (and to a lesser degree the Gadsden Purchase) were just... that is largely a matter of opinion.  The answer is probably 'No' by most peoples standards since the US started the war under somewhat false pretenses.  However, it is worth noting that the Spanish/Mexicans themselves had originally taken the land away from the Native Americans in the first place under even less just pretenses.    \n\nIs one thief stealing from another unjust?  There are very few cultures on this planet (including many Native American tribes for that matter) who did not get their land by displacing or forcing away some other group that was there before.  That does not make it right (and has caused much of the hardship and suffering over the history of the world), but neither is it fair to single out just one group and ignore similar offenses by others.  \n\nLastly, it is worth noting that while New Mexico was heavily populated, most of the land taken following the Mexican-American War (including large parts of Colorado and Utah) had NO Mexican settlements at all, was rarely visited, and really did not belong to Mexico (or any other country) any more than saying the entire moon 'belongs' to the US because a few American astronauts briefly walked on one small part of it 30 years ago.
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There are no laws against using our military to secure our border.\n\nThere is a law against using the military to enforce Civil law without presidential authorization but this law does not apply to the National Guard.
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Ironically, Mexico is having a huge fight at its southern border with illegal immigration.  As a matter of fact, the current Kennedy-McCain bill, S-1033, the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act, includes a provision to "establish a program to provide needed equipment, technical assistance, and vehicles to manage, regulate, and patrol the international border between Mexico and Guatemala and between Mexico and Belize."\n\nGo to the link below (the Library of Congress site) and do a search on Senate Bill S.1033.  Look at Subtitle C--International Border Enforcement - SEC. 133. IMPROVING THE SECURITY OF MEXICO'S SOUTHERN BORDER.
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In 2004 10,000 federal agents (CBP) working on the border apprehended 1.1 million people attempting to cross the border.\n\nHave you ever been to the border between the US and Mexico?  It is very long (over 2000 miles) and extremely in hospitable. I know because I was stationed in a recon unit to watch a portion of it.  Even if a fence is built, there is no way to watch the fence all the time, and any fence can be breached.  Do the math....to adequately watch the border with real time guards (that is someone who can respond to an immediate breach) you would need a guard tower every 1/4 mile (depending on terrain).  That is 8000 guard towers.  To staff that 24 hours/365, with two agents, you would need 64,000 agents, plus another large group to actually round up the illegals, process them, and detain them.  Although some might like to, we can't shoot them or abuse them, so this is expensive.  \n\nBy my rapid calculations, we would need about 100,000 more law enforcement personnel (at a cost of 8 billion dollars per year, not counting facilities).  We would also have to build a more user-friendly infrastructure along the border, which, by the way has lots of private land along it.  Yes, we could uset he military to staff these towers, but wait, by the constitution we can't have active duty military or reserve make arrests (posse comitatus).  Yes, they can watch and radio (like we did in the Sonoran Desert years ago), but then you end up with nasty situations like the Marine who shot and killed a Mexican boy who had strayed over the border with some sheep.\n\nPart of the problem is that while people whine about this, they love to get cheap labor.  Many businesses and private families intentionally employ illegal aliens because they save money.  The pressure that special interest groups representing certain of these folks is certain to make it difficult to stop the supply.  Congress is about the consider a new bill to have guest workers, like in Germany with the Turks.  After all, you don't really want a job as a fruit picker, do you, or as an office cleaner...got to leave those for the migrant workers!
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Even if America told the Mexican government the exact time and day of an attack, the Mexican government would be helpless against the American armed forces. I am not really sure what this talk of food has to do with anything though
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the Mexican government uses military to patrol their boarders so why can't we do the same? I don't see the problem there
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The border was "open" up until the 1880s. Of course, the open Mexican border at that time was "unofficial," but the American southwest was so wide open that mexican immigration was not a political issue.
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It didn't. The Vietnam war, the Korean war, the war with Serbia and most of the other wars had nothing to do with protecting Americans.
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We were already occupying Vera Cruz in 1914.  I have the photos from a family diary of US Naval landing parties there. I think Back Jack Pershing was already in persuit of Villa on both sides of the border.  Remeber the Mexican Civil War was in full swing at that time.
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40 Marine NCO's were involved in the battle for Chatulpetec Castle along with greater numbers of US Army against 750 Mexican  soldiers and 250 military cadets as young as 13, A myth evolved as to a Red Stripe Marine NCO's have on their "Dress Blue" trousers; supposedly commemorating the Marine NCO's bloody fight there. \n\nDuring the battle, six Mexican military cadets refused to fall back when General Bravo finally ordered retreat, and fought to the death against superior U.S. forces. One by one they fell, fighting for their country; when one was left (Juan Escutia), and the US forces about to kill him, he grabbed the Mexican flag, wrapped it around himself and jumped off the castle point.\n\nAn aide to Mexican Commanding General Santa Anna's  witnessing the mass Mexican Army's retreat exclaimed, "God is a Yankee"!\n\nAfterwards the Marines were ordered to guard the Halls of Montezuma ~ Thus "The Marine Hymn"
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Actually, you are misunderstanding the relevance of the Zimmerman Telegram, an attempt at wartime diplomacy between Germany and Mexico in 1916 during the First World War. Germany had suggested that, if the United States entered the First World War in Europe, the American army would be sent to Europe and the Rio Grande would be almost completely unguarded. Germany felt that if Mexico could be enticed into joining the Central Powers, it would act as a 'force in being' and that the United States would then have to retain large military forces to watch their southern flank.\n\nGermany did not, in fact, offer to send substantial military forces to Mexico and thus eventually assume power, as you are implying. Germany was not able to send reinforcements to any of their existing colonies in Africa or China or the Pacific because of British naval superiority and the German squadron at Singapore had been destroyed at Port Stanley in 1915.\n\nSorry to rain on your parade, but your statement really is without merit.
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They probably do but there is not telling what Americans have that we just haven't discovered.\n\nDid you know there is a UNTREATABLE form of Tuberuculois in southern MExico that is slowing working its way towards the US? Can you say another plague?
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There is a historical president in the The US taking over Latin American countries for other purposes than just to rule them. The best example is the Mexican American war. It was mainly a war over the border of Texas. US said it was the Rio Grand, Mexico said it was the Brazos river. So we fought a war all the way to Mexico City. We took over Mexico. But we didn't want Mexico we just want Texas and the other half of the nation. And that's what we got. Plus puppet governments are easy to run than local state government. Hope this helps.