Facts About Mexico, Past and Present
by Big Dog on May 16, 2006 at 18:42 Immigration
If the southwestern United States had remained part of Mexico, this region would have been governed under Mexican laws — and would probably be as impoverished and bereft of opportunity as Mexico is today. The Southwest’s vigorous cities and universities, its medical centers and Silicon Valleys, its upward mobility and thriving middle class, its transportation, communication and power generation systems would be a mere shadow of what they are today. Las Vegas and Hollywood would still be sleepy desert way stations.
If the reconquistas were to “take back” these lands, they would likely impose the same disastrous policies that have enfeebled Mexico. They would squander, rather than capture, America’s prosperity and opportunity — turning America’s gold into lead, like a reverse King Midas. Countless poor Mexicans would still be drawn to the magnetic North. And our immigration problems would simply move to the southern borders of Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Colorado and Oklahoma.
Anyone who has visited the Southern border of the United States can see this already. The areas where immigrants congregate are impoverished and there is little hope for advancement. I have been to several areas and they are full of poor people who have no means to make a better life. If they had held on to the south (or if we continue to give it back) it will become as criminally poor as the place they left.