It seems that's what is happening. Fox is calling for completely open borders, Castaneda says he wants the whole enchilada ---which means they get everything they are demanding. At least Lee's way, Mexico would have been placed under US rule, they'd follow the Constitution and there wouldn't be a President Fox today.
I disagree. During our invasion of Mexico, we lost a lot of troops to guerilla attacks. Less than 20 years later, the French tried to conquer and hold Mexico, and they were driven out - thanks in part to guerilla tactics.
Given our closer proximity to Mexico, we could perhaps have succeeded in imposing our rule where the French failed, but at what cost? Remember we had to put down a huge rebellion in the Phillipines after we annexed it; and we eventually promised independence (which would have happened sooner if not for WWII) because the cost was just not worth it.
I see no reason why the same people who threw out the French would simply sit idly by and let us impose our system of government and way of life on them. And back then, there were no welfare programs or foreign aid perks to bribe them with. We would have simply been foreign devils in their eyes, people who looked and acted different, spoke a different language, were not for the most part Catholic, were arrogant and did not treat them as equals, etc.
Worse case scenario, Mexicans fight endlessly against us and become a kind of Palestinian or Yugoslavian problem for us. Almost as bad a scenario: Mexicans become a kind of "Quebec" problem, and we have to jump through all kinds of hoops to keep them happy, in spite of which they threaten to seceed every 20 years anyway (and get more bribes in the process for not seceeding).
Regardless, this did not happen, and we should be glad. The Bushies and the NWO types seem to be trying to reverse this fortunate accident of history, by de facto merging Mexico and the USA against our wishes and without or knowledge or consent.
I don't for a minute believe that we could have imposed by force our way of life on the Mexicans in 1848. We would have been in the same or worse position today if we had tried. Mexico is where Mexicans are. It isn't just a geographical term.