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Originally posted by KSGM:
I have always been baffled that the proud Mexicans don't do more to fix their country.

They don't have the Second Amendment. All the guns are in the hands of the corrupt government and their friends the cartels.

I did address that in my previous comment. Though it was via an edit, so you may have replied not being aware of the added sentence.

>>>>ARE YOU FRICKEN HIGH??? PUT DOWN THE DOPE!!!<<<<<

The corrupt and violent narco state that is Mexico is entirely complicit with the uncontrolled U.S. border "immigration" that has taken place these past few years. Which, in my mind, is tantamount to an act of war against the U.S.
Incorporate? Isolate! Turn a large swath of the southern border into a minefield and with the exception of one fully equipped entry point in each border state, seal our southern border.

No.

Too many insurmountable differences. And from the financial side alone what would that do to our economy to suddenly have to pump trillions of dollars into that country to improve the infrastructure and defend it?

We essentially all but shut down immigration from about 1924, then easing up, in stages, through 1980. The idea was that the large amount of immigrants that had come to the USA in the early 20th century needed to be assimilated into the culture and ideals of our country before we opened the doors up again. Exceptions were made for political refugees.

We have a very tough job now of assimilating the millions who have poured into our country, legally and illegally. I cannot imagine trying to annex 130 million people, overnight, who do not speak our language and likely have little understanding of our founding principles.

For that matter, we now have millions of native-born young people who are clueless about the founding principles, or the good we have done worldwide. They need serious education.

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pump trillions of dollars into that country to improve the infrastructure and defend it?

Another well-stated con point.

I think the centuries-old culture of corruption in that country could never be eradicated.

Can we force Mexico to take Puerto Rico instead?

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Originally posted by KSGM:
What are the pros and cons of a future that has the USA amending it's borders to include Mexico?

I'd rather we return California than annex Mexico.

Let's start by moving all their street taco vendors here.

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Better access to tacos

Siestas every afternoon

Low rider kits for your car's suspension, 50% off

Two words: ¡Sábado Gigante!

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Originally posted by KSGM:
…we often complain of the corruption and cartel influence in Mexico, and how we are powerless to stop it.

We’re not powerless to stop it. It could be stopped overnight. There’s just no political will to do it.

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There’s just no political will to do it.

Will that be the case in the upcoming sequel Trump administration? It seems to me that an improvement in conditions in Mexico would soften the blows at the border.

One of the things I remember from long ago was the idea that Canada might become part of the US. Supposedly many Canadians supported the idea or at least thought it was inevitable for some reason. At the time I was ignorant, naïve, and thought, “Sure, why not?” Even if it might have been a good idea at one time though, I certainly don’t believe that now. People like Trudeau don’t get elected because no one supports them or their policies.

Although I have sympathies for some of the people there, just as I have sympathy for some people in New York, California, Colorado, and many other states, I don’t want the majority of the people who live in places like Canada to be additional sources of infection for the US as a whole. The movement to turn the US into a third world cesspit is well on the way, and doesn’t need to be accelerated.

Pro - I really like elote and birria.

Con - I really can't think of a single one.

If there was ever a time to annex the whole of Mexico, it was 1848. Forget it now.

Puerto Rico has a better chance to become a State than the incorporation of Mexico into the United States.

Ask the French how well they liked Alsace-Lorraine being annexed to Germany after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, and the long-term affects that resulted.