[hershey]

It's about Mexico integrating with the US and the growing assumption below the Rio Grande that they can tell us what to do and when to do it. Why not? So far, it's worked like a charm.

[jneesy]

mexicans oppose door locks on american homes because it hinders access by their thugs to our goods

same concept

[DumpsterDiver]

Mexico, moreover, has its own share of that river's [the Colorado] water, a share it manages badly.

That article about the canals ties in nicely with this other thread:

Clean it up [Mexico pollutes river w/disease, "migrants" swim thru it, then work in food industry]

For decades, the open sewer known as the New River has carried a toxic brew of pollutants across the U.S.-Mexico border, through Calexico and Brawley and on to the Salton Sea, polluting everything in its path.