Thread: Can Taking Over Mexico Solve the Immigration Problem?

Can Taking Over Mexico Solve the Immigration Problem?

The border between the United States and Mexico isn't just a boundary between nations; it's a chasm that separates a wealthy global superpower from a poverty-stricken Third World Country. To millions of Mexicans desperate for a better life, it's a finish line- to cross it undetected means to seek prosperity in America. But the U.S. spends billons of dollars each year on illegal aliens, making immigration one of today's most contentious issues in American politics. While the angry debate rages over how to protect our border, perhaps the most realistic question is, why not extend the border and annex Mexico?

The border is 2,000 miles long, most of it in treacherous terrain that is difficult and costly to protect. In 2006, the U.S. spent $12 billion on border enforcement. Yet hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants sneak through every year. "We're like a dog chasing its tail," says political columnist and author Erik Rush. "We spend billions of dollars each year to keep immigrants out, then billions more on their education and healthcare once they get here anyway. We'd be smarter to spend those billions to improve and annex Mexico. We would solve the immigration problem and reap a host of other benefits."

Balancing the costs and benefits of a peaceful annexation of Mexico is a monumental project. Yet Rush has thoughtfully researched and constructed a plan which he outlines in his provocative new book, "Annexing Mexico: Solving the border problem through annexation and assimilation." While the book is certain to stir up fiery debates, Rush points to polls that show 40% of Mexicans would like to live in America and 10% of Mexico's population is already here. So why not bring America to them. Could it work?

"Mexicans are generally a hard-working, family-oriented population," says Rush. "Most Americans can appreciate those traits. The problem now is U.S. taxpayers are rightfully angry about carrying someone else's load. The animosity will dissipate when the burden is shared equally by annexing Mexico and improving conditions there."

Rush is very persuasive and logical when he demonstrates how both nations would benefit if Mexico becomes part of the United States. "The first step is conceding that patrolling the border does not and will not work," says Rush. "We have terrorists sneaking through our back door- and they're not looking for jobs. After annexation, we'd be in a better position to protect ourselves from terrorist infiltration by heavily fortifying Mexico's narrow southern tip which is much easier to defend."

Rush carefully dissects the obstacles of taking over Mexico, including bringing the infrastructure up to U.S. standards, shaking out the corruption in Mexico's government, increasing minimum wage and improving healthcare. "We spend $1.4 billion a year on emergency room costs for illegal immigrants," says Rush. "Diseases we once eradicated in the U.S. are re-emerging in frightening numbers. If we immunize, bring healthcare up to date and educate the Mexican population about the spread of communicable diseases everybody's better off."

Aside from the quality of life benefits, "Annexing Mexico" points out what many will see as the piece de resistance, the overwhelming crucial benefit to Rush's proposal: North America could finally achieve energy independence. "Mexico has huge oil reserves that could eliminate our reliance on OPEC," says Rush. "The state run oil business in Mexico operates at a loss right now, which is testament to the corruption in the Mexican government. There's no excuse for this-it's time for a dramatic change."

While Rush believes greed and fear are hurdles that must be overcome, "Annexing Mexico" explains how extending the border could improve the lives of millions of Americans for generations to come. "Our population is growing so rapidly in the U.S.," says Rush. "We need some relief. Mexico desperately needs relief from the poverty afflicting more than half of its citizens. It's ludicrous for a line in the sand drawn more than a century ago to divide 'the haves' from 'the have nots' when a peaceful union can benefit everyone involved."

For a review copy of Annexing Mexico: Solving the border problem through annexation and assimilation; by Erik Rush (Level 4 Press 2007; 220 pp. Hardcover) or to interview the author, contact Rachel Damien at 727-443-7115, ext. 206 or email rachel@event-management.com. Please include your name, publication, and mailing address with your request.

Hardcover: 220 pages
Publisher: Level 4 Press

Available at: www.level4press.com

About the author:

Erik Rush was born in New York City in 1961, the first child of a white father and a black mother. His family lived in the same neighborhood as Betty Shabazz, widow of slain civil rights activist Malcolm X, and her children. Thus Erik grew up keenly aware of the unfolding civil rights issues of the day.

Erik has worked as a musician and a biomedical researcher. He moved to Colorado in 1986 where he studied various Eastern and Western philosophies. He became a Christian in 1989.

In 1996, one of Erik's short stories won a Chrysalis first place award for short fiction. His first novel, "The Angels Fell" was released in 2002.

Erik is a contributor of social commentary to WorldNetDaily and is a staff writer and acting associate editor and publisher for the New Media Alliance, Inc., a non-profit national coalition of writers, journalists and grass-roots media outlets.

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Sounds like just another approach to the NAU to me.

If there are those that want to lift up a third world country...just wait a minute and America will be that third world country.

IMO we are well on the way to that status. The majority of the citizens in this country have seen no progress for years, only decline in wages, health care, living conditions, etc.

Most of us would have to work 3 lifetimes to be as well of as our parents were who used to work for AMERICAN companies that paid living wages and insured their families, and actually had retirement plans.

Millions upon millions of us are unemployed or under-employed in America. Way too many millions have no health insurance, or if they do it is on paper only and with the out of pocket costs, may as well be considered uninsured.

In America today we have astronomical trade deficits with China and just about every other 'trade partner'. We export almost nothing and import cheap slave labor made goods. Everything use to have a MADE IN THE USA label and its is now nearly non-existant. Our government allows America companies to fire its American employess, leave our shores and build in the third world for its slave labor and non-existant labor and enviromental laws then ship the products here for greater profits at the expense of our peoples well being, and we eat it up. Keep shopping at walmart, kmart, keep buying MADE IN CHINA, MADE IN TIAWAN, MADE IN MEXICO and you only accelerate our decline.

In what way are we a super-power?
Military - just what does that mean to me? the military is used today to ensure wealth to the oil barons in America and their arab partners.
Wealth - just who has that? not the majority of the American people.
World influence - Most of the world couldn't care less what we think since we have become a greedy corporation instead of a country with virtue.
Manufacturing - Not here anymore.

I probably went off topic on a tangent, but I was on a roll.

IMO- we can say "Uncle", and swap countries with Mexico. Mexicans can all move here and make it their home, and vice-versa.
We could leave everything intact and exactly in it's place. All the buildings, roads, highways, airports, train and bus stations, shopping centers and malls, colleges and universities, cemetaries, government structures. We can give them all our homes, including furnishings. The "WHOLE ENCHALADA"- 'THE WHOLE SHEBANG".
Then we can all relocate to Mexico.
I would give the Mexicans 5-10 years before they start migrating back to Mexico- OUR LAND NOW- because they will FAIL AND FALL RIGHT ON THEIR FACES. Corrupt governments like Mexico, multiculturism and bilingiual societies never succeed. IT'S SAD BUT IT'S TRUE.

="firecracker]
I would give the Mexicans 5-10 years before they start migrating back to Mexico- OUR LAND NOW- because they will FAIL AND FALL RIGHT ON THEIR FACES. Corrupt governments like Mexico, multiculturism and bilingiual societies never succeed. IT'S SAD BUT IT'S TRUE. [/b]

Exactly. It amazes me how illegals justify their invasion. "Taking it back for Mexico." If that happens, the American Southwest will turn into the dump that Mexico is, it will become what they had fled to begin with, and they will just end up wanting to leave it anyway.

As I like to say: They are not coming here because "it is Mexico," they are coming here because it sure the hell is NOT.

While the book is certain to stir up fiery debates, Rush points to polls that show 40% of Mexicans would like to live in America and 10% of Mexico's population is already here. So why not bring America to them. Could it work?

Did this nutcase ask Americans if they wanted all of Mexico to be merged with the the US, and for us to pay for it?

Sounds like just another plan for America's rich to get richer while middle class and taxpayers pay for this nightmare scenario.

Who the hell wants them???

Not I.............let them keep that corrupt, unsanitary country.

GOOD LUCK..........it may be rich in resources {NAU Power brokers, eh?}
but it's nothing but a 3rd world pit. they couldn't create anything good on one square acre let alone a nation.

Look what they've done to the areas that they've moved into right here in the most beautiful, successful Country on the planet! Nothing but trashed and back to 3rd world status. Who needs that mentality?

Fyi: I have many hispanic friends from many countries. We've never seen anything like this. They're nothing like the ILLEGALS flooding our country. They value becoming an American while gracefully maintaining their rich cultures within their homes.

Allan Wall, the V-Dare writer who lives in Mexico, says this is a bad idea. A better option is to provide incentives to induce Mexico to allow foreign investment and clamp down on corruption. Plus the billionaire families that run Mexico need to pay more taxes. Also of course we need to turn off the magnets that draw Mexican illegals here.

Hmmm... In answer to the question posed in the thread title, I would ask an analogous question:

If you have a bad next door neighbor that doesn't take care of his lawn, leaves trash lying about, has his utilities cut off periodically for non-payment and has loud and obnoxious parties that disturb the peace, is the correct solution to the problem to invite him to come and live with you?

'Nuff said?

Why would anyone American want to absorb that country?

At this point, it seems, only a one-term{mod edit}

Way too many full blown traitors fooling way too many idiot American citizens.