[BOBTHENAILER]

There's an awful lot of oil down there in Mexico (second highest reserves in the Western Hemisphere)--and we should try to cut back on Saudi oil. Plus all those beautiful but undeveloped coasts. Lots of good jobs could be made in Mexico

Couldn't agree with you more in this respect. Just one example: The Permian and Delaware basins in New Mexico and Texas, continue well into Mexico. There are thousands of high volume producers in the US and just as many waiting to be drilled in Mexico. That alone could employ many thousands for a number of years.

The coasts could provide work for as many as a few hundred thousand. The minerals of the Rocky Mountains as Sabertooth described: again, many thousands could be employed in that industry as well. I agree, its time to pressure Mexico into accepting modernity and bringing their people along for the ride.

[Trteamer]

You guys seem to be hitting right on the solution. Modernize Mexico, clean it up and make them a good neighbor.
They are not a good neighbor, their people have gotton screwed from their government and the U.S. turns a blind eye. They are a third world country and a threat to our country as long as they remain that way.

I also agree with bounty hunters and land mines.