[FITZ]

If they wound up taking over this area all the reasons this area is a major source of wealth to America would leave, within 10 years it would be just as destitute and F'd up as the rest of Mexico.

That's what I'm afraid of ---all along the border you see fastly increasing poverty levels and falling wages in many areas. Doctors are leaving, the middle class is leaving, the third world keeps moving in. They'll elect governors like Tony Sanchez in Texas and bring the rest of the state down. Even Dan Morales said Sanchez was just like a Mexican politician buying himself an election and the voters don't see through it.

Someone on here said we need to probably take Mexico by force and build that country up, there's probably no other way to get those laws changed down there that make things so bad for so many but so great for a very few.

[discostu]

Well certainly the only way to control immigration from Mexico (especially the illegal kind, the border is too long and too rugged to ever truly defend) is to fix Mexico's economy. That's why people stopped leaving Europe in droves. People go where they can feed their family. I don't know about taking them over by force, I think their economy can be fixed without such drastic measure.

I haven't seen any significant change in the border area. I know that's the mantra of these discussions but I haven't seen it. I haven't seen the economy drop (well lately, but the whole nations economy dropped), haven't seen more Mexicans and I haven't seen fewer white people. As for Sanchez, are you saying he's buying an election like how the Kennedy clan has been buying elections for 50 years? I don't think that's a Mexican thing either.

[Classicaliberalconservative]

Buying himself an election. I hate to break it to you but plenty of politicans do that here too directly or indirectly.