Wouldn't it be fair if the US was given 100 Mexican acres for every illegal immigrant from Mexico?
538577
THEN WE WOULD OWN MEXICO
463477
No for several reasons. One, any illegal immigrant (from Mexico or otherwise) takes advantage of United States infrastructure without paying taxes, so that' just plain not fair. Two, having people in the United States with no records is dangerous. Every natural born citizen or legal immigrant has records somewhere. Three, when illegal immigrants work, they get screwed because their work is illegal and employers take advantage of that. Putting restrictions on immigration would ensure that all Mexican immigrants get fair pay and work hours.
478144
I don't know the answer to the question about targetting just Mexicans, but I do know that people from practically every country in the world are trying to get into the US, and I would wager that there are a large number of illegals from all countries including European countries. The US controls half of the world's resources, and has only a fraction of the world's population. From a purely logical and scientific point of view, wouldn't that make the US a magnet for large sections of the world's populations. Even if you take Japan and Europe which have very high standards of living as examples, they still have small land mass and high population density, thus making the US with vast amounts of land still very attractive for migrants.
415632
Sure, Sam Houston beat the Mexican Army back in 1836, then the US military had beaten them again 1848. There is plenty of oil there to help out with growth not to mention the labor pool that has improved their skill in the past 30 years.  Mexico being added to the US would do wonders for the economy, then 70% of the poorest of the population would increase their standard of living into the modern world. But we would have to sink in tons of money in Federal programs to break up all the corruption, that in itself makes it not worth it.
449073
As a liberal married to a man who is half-Mexican, it sounds like an excellent plan to me!  Before we give the conservatives the boot, we should grab their money as they head over the border.  Many of them are crooked CEOs who obtained their wealth by stabbing everyone else (not just Mexicans) in the back.
953174
Boy your full of intersting questons today. Welll i guess it would be possible.  But the queston is would it benifit the United States. It would add about 20 million people and lots of pollution and damaged plumming.  I belive we could buy it annex it, and make it a state, fix its problems clean it up and secure it for about 5 Trillion dollars. But it would be a bad move on the united states part because the new land would be a burden to its econimc prosperity. Over all it wouldnt be wroth it.  It would be a great blunder of the century.
489136
Unfortunately or not, illegal immigrants can't claim the land that is no more theirs by now, after 158 years. And there hadn't been trapped any Hispanic population in the US after the Mexican Cession, so this 'ancestry lark' is on infirm footing. This situation reminds me of a very bitter period of Hungarian history right after WW1, when Hungary was ripped apart by other bordering countries and the diplomatic corps of the winner nations, and was reduced to its one third, so it lost 72% of its total area, by courtesy of the Treaty of Trianon in 1920. These annexed parts form the bulk of Slovakia, a large segment of Romania (Transylvania) and knobs of Slovenia, Austria, Croatia and Serbia. 64% of Hungary's population found themselves outside the hamstrung homeland. Still, we can't assert our rights to the lost areas, though 5 million of our fellow Hungarians still live beyond the borders and we don't plan 'reoccupying' these areas.  I think Mexicans go overboard, compared to this example. And the problem is that the Mexican government doesn't give a hoot to stop the exodus of illegal immigrants to the US, thus the States is to swallow the bitter pill.
1010098
What you say rings true - but I have one fact to add.  The current debate in congress is to allow 103 million people, mostly from Mexico, accross the border in 20 years.  Immigration is great, but colonization is not, and legal colonization is dispicable by our leaders.\n\nWe don't hate Mexicans, we just love our country more.  I say to be fair, if they want to send 100 million this way, 100 million should be able to go to Mexico.   But they can't - not only illegal entry a felony, but unless your of Mexican descent you can't be a citizen without an act of the Mexican Congress if you know what I mean.\n\nNothing personal, but please tell me when does immigration turn into colonization?
410259
Probably they would think how stupid they were. the only people who want to go TO Mexico are the low lives who realize that those who are upper-middle class here, are kings over there.  The government would love it.  more tax dollars and more money going around.  For their people to buy supplies to go to AMERICA.  Trust me, it would be the total opposite reaction for what we're giving them. (At least the SMART people)
897125
Well, that would be $300.00 for every man woman and child. Now, if you are a family of 5 that is going to cost your family $1,500.00. Out of curiosity, who is going to pay the $300.00 per person for those on public assistance? The "rich"?\n\n90 Billion Dollars is alot of money. Consider this when you are talking 1 billion of anything..\n\nA billion seconds ago it was 1959.\nA billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.\nA billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.\nA billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.\n\nNow, we are spending 90 of those 1 billions a year on illegal immigrants. Is that fair to the rest of us who aren't illegal?\n\nPS... That would be $300.00 for each member of the family. So if there were 5 children and 2 parents that would be $2,100.00 per year, you are correct.
1088470
i'd like to buy Baja California from the Mexicans.... it is ideallly suited to be an extension of California itself.
877724
Americans cannot own land in Mexico.\nDarn those double standards.
814018
No, that would be an unfair poll tax for the illegals, felons, and dead people trying to get a democrat elected.
596630
I doubt it. Investment in Mexico by US citizens is strictly limited. Mexico dose not want immigration from the US and has resisted any measures to affect the drug trade significantly.  La mordida still rules in Mexico. In fact, native Mexicans look down on their American Mexicans cousins. Ironic isn't it.
581112
No and why would they? America had companies that slave labored their people and polluted the land. They then abandoned the Mexicans for Chinese Communist workers at half the price they paid the Mexicans.
697401
100.000,000 should be enough\n\n:> peace\n.
1020497
You're exactly right.\n\nLand has been fought over for centuries and the land was divided up before most anyone in the world alive today was born so get over it.  It's not your land.  It's the government's land and God's land b/c everything on Earth belongs to God.\n\nNo one deserves more land.  You're stuck w/ what you got.  Get over it.  The Mexicans don't deserve more land anyway.  They're sending all of their population over to America.  Mexicans fighting immigration laws - America should start a protest - We invade their land for a change - lol\n\nBesides, some of the Mexican tourist destinations are already unsafe like Cancun, Mexico...They are just greedy...\n\nAnother thing...\nPeople say Americans are greedy when we don't give other countries money.  We help out more countries and give the most money to others in the WORLD.  Nobody should say America is greedy b/c we aren't...We earned what we have and that's the end of it.\n\nRich People:\nWhy should rich people have to pay more taxes per dollar than the rest of us.  If they earned what they have, they deserve it...They're living the American Dream...If they inherited their riches, I don't think they deserve it.\n\nThere's some insight for you.