It’s time for more creative and radical thinking on the best way to confront the Mexican takeover of the United States.
A couple of recent news stories on the problems of the porous border along the southern states sum up the challenges certain to face the winner of the ongoing presidential campaign.
* Al Qaeda was and is taking advantage of the situation on the Mexican border to get their operatives inside the U.S. The most recent manifestation was the FBI’s thwarting of a planned terrorist attack on Fort Huahucara in Arizona, the largest intelligence facility in the Southwest. Middle Eastern males bearing no or fake documentation were found having shaved their beards and adopted Hispanic-sounding names to appear less suspicious.
* Six school districts in California are suing the state’s department of education over the requirement to administer standardized testing in English only. Certain educators want permission to administer standardized tests in Spanish to those students who have not become fluent in English.
* Closer to home here in Middle Tennessee, an illegal alien from Mexico with a lengthy criminal record, having been arrested and released upwards of a dozen times, got drunk, went for a drive and collided head on with a Mt. Juliet couple, killing them both.
Relationship out of balance
The parasitic nature of Mexico’s dependence upon the U.S. does not go unnoticed, even by what now passes for Mexico’s government. Mexico has far stricter border controls than they think the U.S. should be allowed to have, because they know that it is THEIR economy, not ours, which will be in big trouble if we close the gates.
Between the two countries, Mexico has done virtually all of the taking and none of the giving. Since we’ll clearly reach critical mass long before Mexico gets its own house in order, it’s time to balance the equation. It’s time for the U.S. to invade and annex Mexico, and the sooner the better.
Good for us, good for them
The Mexican legislative systems, military and police are so emaciated and corrupt, the drug cartels and human trafficking networks are better armed, trained and more committed to their objectives. The fact that common Mexican folk are fleeing north by the millions for a better life is sufficient evidence there is precious little in their homeland that inspires the populace to stay, fight, live and, if need be, die for reforms from within. If Mexico’s potential is ever to be realized, it’s going to take robust democratic reforms and a military presence capable of restoring the power of the government to the consent of the governed. As citizens of a new semi-autonomous U.S. territory, Mexicans would get at least some of the rights and benefits they so desperately seek in the U.S.; in return we would get the benefits of their labor and taxation levied upon their wages in order to offset the billions of dollars we pay each year for social services, medical care, prosecution and imprisonment of illegals. (Cheap labor? Think again.) And we would justifiably reap the benefits of their more skilled and educated workforce?doctors, professors, engineers and business executives.
Mexico lays claim to some of the richest crude oil deposits in North America, but it lacks the governmental, industrial and business infrastructure to turn those raw assets into the cornerstone of a muscular national economy. Only the U.S. has the right combination of expertise, equipment and entrepreneurialism to show the Mexicans how to look for, process, distribute, market and sell their oil?and with Mexico given territorial status, those companies could get started quickly with a minimum of bureaucratic rigamarole, preferably before other South American thugocracies like Venezuela, Bolivia or Columbia decide to intervene with decidedly less altruistic motivation. This would also increase exponentially our bargaining leverage with the Middle Eastern oil cartels and buy us at least another decade to explore and advance alternative fuels and related technologies.
Mexico has over 6,000 miles of gorgeous coastline; crown jewels still in-the-rough representing tremendous opportunity. In less than 10 years, the American hotel and tourism industries would develop them into modern, luxurious resort cities that would employ thousands of Mexicans, draw millions of international tourist dollars and give our new territory something of their own that they can truly be proud of.
The current slate of solutions to the illegal immigration being placed before Americans serves to treat the symptoms and results of a much larger, deeper problem: Mexico’s own people want out of Mexico. Paths to citizenship, tamper-proof ID cards, heavy fines for employers, and strengthening the border with brute force of bricks and bullets all offer some measure of satisfaction and some hope for positive results. But to ameliorate the root cause of the condition, the U.S. needs to call upon its resourcefulness and, to an extent, its might, to give Mexicans a reason to put their roots in Mexico and remain there with dignity and pride. A peaceful, prosperous, safe and free nation on our southern border serves both nations, and the world at large, best in the long run.
