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You're completely right, the Mexican upper classes have never gotten over their humiliation in 1848, probably would rather have seen Maximillian and the French troops stay, destested Benito Juarez, secretly cheered Pancho Villa when he raided Brownsville, reacted with horror when the US sent Pershing in to find Panchito, and has pretty much embraced every French or other continental anti-American ideology with enthusiasm. The old upper class looks to Spain, and as late as the '60s (and could still be, I just don't know) was still sending their children to be educated there.

Because they were more purely Spanish, the Mexican upper class also has maintained the arrogance of the vice-regency towards the other latin americans, as you point out.

Until one gets to know the other latin american elites, from an American pespective, it is hard to imagine any more despicable group of people than the Mexican uppper class.

And, indeed, the reason we have illegal immigration to the US from Mexico is that conditions in Mexico are terrible.

Until one gets to know the other latin american elites, from an American pespective, it is hard to imagine any more despicable group of people than the Mexican uppper class.

Nothing could be more true.

...Mexican upper classes have never gotten over their humiliation in 1848, probably would rather have seen Maximilian and the French troops stay...

Hey, me too! Was probably their last chance to have a for-real country. (Monroe Doctrine aside, of course.) Seriously, what in the hell are we going to do with this overly picturesque and expensive neighbor? This is getting to be like the most dysfunctional family in the neighborhood taking over the whole town!

Now what about using our millions of illegals to get the Iraqi oil fields back in full production? Or drafting some of them into our very own Foreign Legion. Illegal they may be, but with proper direction, they needn't be of no use to the cause.

Come on Cato, think outside the box: what about using them as Martian Colonists?