I'm not sure it's possible to deal with Puerto Rico and Mexico one-at-a-time.
Whose example do you think Mexico is following in it's approach to the rip-off of the American Taxpayers? Whose help have they enlisted? The corrupt in Puerto Rico are showing the equally corrupt in Mexico how to lobby our pandering politicians for so many BILLIONS, each year, that it's impossible to track it all.
Less than 4 million people living on a rock in the caribbean, roughly the size of the Chicagoland area, are receiving more BILLIONS than most actual states.
Puerto Rico receives American citizenship, American military protection, income and jobs from 17 military facilities, a VA Hospital, Federal Courts, EPA money, Dept. of Highways and Transportation money, FEMA and IRS jobs, U.S. Marshalls, DEA, National Parks, FBI, Customs, INS, Border Patrol, USDA, U.S. Postal Service, Federal Reserve Insurance, Social Security, Medicare, Food Stamps, Federal Student Loans and Grants, etc. all FOR FREE.
Now, they're illegally funneling our tax dollars to LULAC in support of open borders and unlimited immigration to the United States from the 3rd world and who knows what else.
The Bush family has been scrounging campaign contributions in Puerto Rico for the last 20 years, which are nothing but our recycled tax dollars that have been gifted to the ingrates in Puerto Rico. Jeb Bush picked up $150,000 the last time he was there.
Don't look to the Bush family to stop the give-away of Vieques or any of the rest of these goodies to Puerto Rico.
Mexico sees this stuff and says, "Why not us, too?" If we let Puerto Rico have all of this for nothing, why not every other country in the caribbean, central and south america and Mexico?
Puerto Rico needs to be straightened out, if not before then simultaneously along with Mexico.
IMO, what our pandering politicians allowed to happen first in Puerto Rico caused the rest of this mess we're in now.