Honestly, I don't see why we should care. It's their business who they elect, and Mexico is a country of very little strategic importance.
So if we get stubborn, a real communist will be in power in Mexico. We get something like 60% of our oil from Mexico and Venenzuela (where a communist also just got elected).
Their oil doesn't do them any good unless they sell it.
What do you expect them to do, drink it?
By alienating hispanics here in this country
A majority of US citizens of Hispanic origin oppose illegal immigration.
Furthermore, a majority of Hispanics have voted for Dems in every major election for the last 40 years. Don't you think it would be a political benefit to limit their population growth by slowing down the rate of Hispanic immigration?
It seems like a much safer strategy then hoping against hope that we'll somehow reverse a consistent pattern that's held up for 40 years.
That's exactly why legalizing these people is the only answer. I don't know where you've been, but after the Reagan administration amnesty and solomn promose to get tough on the border, nothing happened.
This time they're not even promising to get tough. Sure, they're going to write new laws, but they wrote laws in the 80's too. Look what good it did? They don't even need new laws now, just enforce the old ones, but there's no serious talk of doing it.
So you have exactly my point. We're not going to reverse the 40 years of flow of mexicans across the border, so the only logical thing to do is welcome them to America, and lead them to the English class. That will clear up all the sneaking across the border, so anyone who does so is a genuine bad guy and will be easier to catch. Thus we increase security.
And we'll know who these people are, and where they're working. Right now there is no accountability at all. All these folks have "papers", but they're bogus papers, worth zero for increasing security.
If we welcome them to this country to be Americans, they won't have to hide from the Border Patrol in the spanish barrios, never learning our language and culture.
It's not a perfect solution. I'd rather they went home. But I'm realistic that we're not going to reverse this 40 year migration. The only option is to manage it as best we can.