THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume IX, Issue # 108, June 10, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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TIME TO ANNEX MEXICO!
By Alan Caruba
THE MEXICAN PROBLEM AS A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: THE MASSIVE,
UNCONTROLLED INFLUX OF ILLEGAL ALIENS FROM MEXICO INTO THE U.S.A. & THE SERIOUS THREAT IT POSES TO THE
FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN NATION -- MEXICO: SOCIETY, ECONOMY, & SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE -- THE MEXICAN
GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE & POLICY, AS REGARDS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION OF MEXICANS INTO THE U.S.A. -- WHY THE
DEFEAT OF THE SOCALLED IMMIGRATION "REFORM" BILL IN THE U.S. SENATE ON JUNE 7, 2007, IS A VICTORY FOR THE
NATIONAL CULTURE, IDENTITY, SOVEREIGNTY, SECURITY, & CONTINUED SURVIVAL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
FULL STORY:
Since we obviously cannot safeguard our border with Mexico, why not just annex Mexico? Let’s declare Mexico a
protectorate of the United States of America and set about governing it in a benevolent, but self-interested way. In time,
we could incorporate it as several new States.
The current illegal flow of Mexicans and Central Americans to the United States constitutes the largest diaspora in
modern history. An estimated 10% of Mexico’s population of more than 107 million people is now living in the United
States. About 15% of Mexico’s labor force is working in the United States and one in every seven Mexican workers
migrates to the United States.
The immediate benefits of annexation are obvious. Mexico’s oil industry is its largest provider of revenue, but is very
poorly managed. Its vast revenues are not benefiting the Mexican people who clearly feel compelled to emigrate to the
United States. The Mexican government relies on oil income because its national tax evasion rate is more than 40%.
Given America’s growing need for oil, annexing Mexico and denationalizing its oil industry would permit the investment
necessary to upgrade it, while providing less reliance on foreign sources in the turbulent Middle East or Venezuela.
The second largest source of income for Mexico is the remittances Mexicans who are illegally in the United States send
home. It is currently estimated at between $23 and $25 billion. That is equal to the foreign aid the United States annually
provides to the entire world. It is nearly equal to what Mexico’s oil industry generates every year.
It is U.S. money that is literally going south, while native-born and naturalized Americans are required to fund our
education and health systems that provide free education and health care for illegal Mexicans and their families, a vast
number of whom qualify for welfare benefits as well. The U.S.A. is literally importing poverty. Economist Robert J.
Samuelson has noted that, “the ranks of the poor are constantly replenished. Since 1980, the number of Hispanics with
incomes below the government’s poverty line (about $19,300 in 2004 for a family of four) has risen 162 percent.”
Meanwhile, a June, 2004, agreement between the U.S. and Mexiccan governments that is waiting for U.S.President
George Bush’s signature would literally bankrupt the U.S. Social Security system, if approved by Congress. The
Totalization Agreement could allow millions of illegal aliens from Mexico to draw billions of dollars from the U.S. Social
Security Trust Fund.
A study by the United Nations Population Fund concluded that remittances to Mexico are, in fact, not helping that
nation’s economy. The money is primarily spent on groceries and other daily expenses. A study by the Banco de Mexico,
its central bank, came to the same conclusion, noting that reliance on remittances was itself a cause of poverty, since it
provides fewer incentives to seek other sources of income.
By annexing Mexico and encouraging American business and industry to expand there, creating new jobs, improving that
nation’s prosperity, Mexicans would have less need to relocate in America. Even a Mexican government spokesman,
addressing a press conference in January, 2006, acknowledged that many of the illegals are actually seeking “a better
condition of life, despite the fact that they had work here.”
Then there’s the issue of crime. Mexico is a major corridor for the drug cartels that feed the addictions of American
citizens. The cartels are violent and have corrupted the governance of Mexico at all levels. By annexing Mexico, we can
more effectively battle this pernicious enemy that already threatens the peace of many cities and communities in the
Southwestern U.S.A,.
There is the language problem and, frankly, English will have to become a mandatory second language for Mexicans, if
they insist on coming to America to work or live here. Many Americans throughout the Southwest have had to learn
Spanish just to converse with their neighbors and to conduct business. For generations, Puerto Ricans have routinely
learned and used both languages.
Will we allow Mexicans to vote in American elections? Yes, but only when they become Americans! Initially, we would
need a long period of assimilation and acceptance of American values in the same fashion we currently mandate for
those seeking citizenship through our naturalization process.
American laws and jurisdiction to facilitate trade, guarantee the rights of their citizens, and initiate a crackdown on the
drug cartels that threaten the police, the courts, and other Mexican leaders would replace current Mexican laws.
There is more than a bit of arrogance for thousands of Mexicans -- illegal aliens -- to march in the streets of American
cities demanding that we grant them privileges equal to those of American citizens and, at the same time, allow the
illegals from Mexico to remain free of the obligations and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship, i.e., paying taxes and
obeying our laws.
The greatest benefit of annexation is that America would avoid becoming a de facto Third World nation.
Mexico would not cease to exist. It would become a functioning element of an expanded United States of America.
Mexican-Americans would enjoy the full benefits of citizenship, while retaining their unique history and culture. In the
past, America has achieved this with millions of people belonging to ethnic minorities -- millions of former Irishmen,
Italians, Poles, Lithuanians, Russians, Germans, etc.
Mexico as a separate sovereign nation-state on America's southern border threatens our sovereignty by virtue of the
Mexican government's openly and deliberately encouraging millions of Mexican citizens to ignore U.S. laws, enter the
U.S.A. illegally, and benefit from the American economy.
Mexico as a protectorate and, eventually, a part of America, is a realistic, rational solution. Mexicans are here already.
Let’s make them Americans who will want to live in the former nation of Mexico.
Impossible, you say? Probably yes, and, in truth, I am content to let Mexico be Mexico, but, if you have begun to see
how impossible it is for the United States to continue absorbing millions of illegal immigrants, then you will understand
why the defeat of the immigration “reform” legislation (S 1348) in the U.S. Senate on June 7, 2007, is a victory for the
sovereignty and security of the United States of America.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
United States Immigration, Assimilation, & National Security Policy:
Immigration into the U.S.A., Legal & Illegal Aliens,
& U.S. Border Control
Latin America -- Economics, Politics, Political Regimes,
& Relations with the United States of America:
Problems & Opportunities for the U.S.A.
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Caruba’s new book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press.
© Alan Caruba 2007
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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