The Mexicans from roughly Monterrey northward are generally hardworking, productive and capable of fixing their own backyard.
Those to the south are generally in love with the PRI, socialism and all the freebies they can get. It is reflected in their voting patterns.
The labor and sweat of northern Mexicans has been employed for generations to keep the Kleptocracy afloat. Some northern Mexicans like Calderon think they can keep it afloat longer by expanding the Kleptocracy into the United States.
The truth of the matter is that every Kleptocracy eventually collapses and collapse while, in the short-run, painful is the only long-term solution. Just as you cannot cure a wino by continuing to supply him with booze, you cannot cure a Kleptocracy by continuing to supply them with more pockets to pick.
A Northern Mexican state, divorced of the south, would become a functional first world state within a generation or so. It would then be able to absorb the south much as West Germany absorbed the east.
*A Northern Mexican state, divorced of the south, would become a functional first world state within a generation or so. It would then be able to absorb the south much as West Germany absorbed the east.*
Good plan!