Why not just take over mexico since they owe the us money anyways?

Question

Our laws would take over and all of the companys that have moved to mexico so that they could get cheap labor they would all have to start going by all the laws of the us and everyone in mexico would have to be paid the federal minimum wage at least they would benifit and so would the us then they would all be citizens of the USA and we could get rid of all the stupid illegal imagration bull crap at least as far as mexico is concerned

Answer 1

Well, dumbass, that would be a BAD idea from so many angles, its hard to know where to begin. Lets start with the Mexican Armed Forces shall we. Contrary to the usual racist gringo assumtions about Mexico, the army is one of the nation's best run and efficient institutions. It is extremely well trained, excellently equipped, very highly motivated and enjoys a national level of popular support about the highest of ANY national military on the face of the Earth. (that includes the USA)

(The Mexican military is SO efficient that hundreds of new model German-built army transport trucks of the Mexican Army driven by Mexican soldiers and loaded with thousands of tons of relief supplies rolled into New Orleans the day after Katrina, a full 24 hours BEFORE the US Army and National Guard arrived!)

The Mexican Army is designed primarily for Disaster Relief, Civil Assistance and National Defence. They are NOT intended nor designed for offensive operations. Militarily, as in football, offence costs a LOT more than defence. Offensively, the Mexican Army would have a hard time taking the Tex-Mex Bar and Grill in downtown El Paso. Defensively, the Mexicans would make Vietnam, Afgahnistan and Iraq together look like one big tea party.

Aside from this, when you attack Mexico, you do actually have to make serious provisions for the 8% or so of your population that hails from old Mexico. The Attorney General of the US, the Governor of New Mexico, the Deputy Governor of California, the General Commander of the US Border Patrol, the First Lady of Florida, dozens of senators and congressmen national and state, hundreds of mayors, police chiefs and sherriffs, thousands of police officers, firemen and about 20% of the United States Armed Forces would of course have to be taken into custody and interned for the duration of the war.

Then there is the international fall-out. It will come as a total shock to all the racist Mexico-bashing hate mongers in the US to discover that Mexico enjoys an international reputation FAR greater than the United States. If fact it is harder for a Mexican to visit the US than practically ANY other nation on Earth. (A Mexicans can enter Canada with nothing more than a valid birth certificate for example.) Mexico has a LOT more friends around the world than the US does and with a LOT of those friends, she has mutual assistance agreements, like with Canada, the European Union, Spain, Japan, Brazil and so on.

So the racist idea that an all powerful American Army could just walk over the border and kick the crap out of a few lazy "beaners" and take over the country in 15 minutes is wildly optimistic. As a Mexican citizen, a History major in university and a former officer in the Canadian Army, I would estimate that it would take the United States about 4-5 years (and about 100-200,000 casualties, minimum) to "pacify" Mexico. (By that I mean "pacified" like Iraq is currently "pacified." NOT like Puerto Rico is "pacified")

And we haven't even begun to consider just how popular this war, the internment camps, the international outrage, the massive casualties, the now undying and infinite hatred of the Mexican people, is all actually going to be to the American public. You might want to "re-think" the whole "take over Mexico" concept, perhaps concieved somewhat in haste.

You actually could do a lot in your country to relieve Mexico's problems right now, just stop your illegal drug users, addicts and consumers from continuing their current war against the Mexican people through their freinds in the international drug cartels. This will free up billions for combating poverty, building infrastructure, improving education, importing industry, all of which will dramatically reduce the illegal immigration problem.

(Contrary to the false ideas of the racists, Mexicans do not actually WANT to go to the US, they go just for jobs. If they could stay here, they would, thats why so many MILLIONS have come back home already! YOU people handle your illegal drug criminals who are destroying our country, and that will free up ALL the resources we need to keep the Mexicans in Mexico! Deal?)

Answer 2

I'm pretty sure you don't even want to open this can of worms. do you realize how much money we owe to other countries. And why would we want to take over Mexico they are not a threat to us at least militarily. We won't even officially take over countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. So I think you should read a little more before making a statement like that because we would be owned by a dozen other countries if money was the reason to take a country over.

Answer 3

I think it would be more in the form of an invitation to join the United States, and not a "takeover" - same with Canada, except for Quebec, which would rather become sovereign on its own, with French as its language.

There could be a sort of "war" fronted in the Southwest, but it would be put down by the Mexican government themselves.

Of course, I'm just guessing, but I do live in Tucson, AZ.

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[Tucson is the only city that has a statue of Pancho Villa, on a horse, with a sword... ]

Answer 4

Aside from the fact that Mexico is a sovereign nation, I would hope that the US would be smarter than that. If we took over every nation that owed us money, we would no longer need passports. And I like mine.

I look at it this other way... it's like my Visa credit card company coming and taking over my house because I owe them four grand and are only making the minimum payments. Oh, and sometimes the payments are made with money I borrowed from my mom.

Answer 5

Nah, I vote for Mexico taking the land it had in the United States back, since it was theirs to begin with. That's what will happen sooner or later. I speak both English and Spanish fluently, but like to speak Spanish a whole lot more. It sounds cooler, and seems to have more "feeling". For those who don't agree with that, relax, it's my opinion and we are all entitled to one.

Answer 6

Would you like it if, The Countries The USA is indebted to, take us over?

Get Real!

Invading other Nations, is not the answer.

I hope you and people like you have no plans to be part of our Government, any day soon. If so, The USA, is in trouble!

Answer 7

Because no matter how much money they owe us, it will still not cover the disparity between our economies. It would be like importing millions of poor people because their global value is less than ours. Mexico would also be abandoned because nobody would want to live with their crappy infrastructure (roads and sanitation) and they would just move to our cities.

Answer 8

1. We have enough on our American plate already with Iraq.
2. We would have to absorb millions more of them, as they surely wound not stay at home after we took them over.
3. It would bankrupt our country.

Answer 9

What kind of stupid thief breaks into the poorest house in the neighborhood?

Answer 10

we will take over Mexico in 2010 Bush told that on CNN news, president fox was standing by him and did not disagree.