Why Doesn't the USA Buy Baja Calif. from Mexico? (income, living in, dangerous)
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Colonizing?........don't think so. I have bought Mexico tomatos in San Diego while the other day here in Rosarito bought a head of Calif lettuce.......we scratch each others back......besides if the Americans were required to leave this place would be a ghost state.
There are thousands of Americans between TJ and Ensenada living here as Tourist/Residents as I call myself while we do live under the Mexican rule and their currency most of the time.
I'm not biased but just stating facts as they are.
USA is currently colonizing the peninsula of Baja California and the moment will come when American citizens will be more than Mexicans and then USA will take again Mexican territory without any problem.
If we wanted to take over Baja California (or any part of Mexico for that matter) we would just march in and take over. No need for us to wait decades as Gringos slowly move to Baja and Chapala and so forth, we don't need to play the long game ... although it would certainly make things easier.
IMO what prevents us from doing so is the fear that the entire population of Mexico would pack their bags and move across the Rio Grande since US annexation would make the Mexicans into US nationals, and free movement would be their legal right as per Gonzalez v Williams (US Supreme Court case in 1904).
If we wanted to take over Baja California (or any part of Mexico for that matter) we would just march in and take over. No need for us to wait decades as Gringos slowly move to Baja and Chapala and so forth, we don't need to play the long game ... although it would certainly make things easier.
IMO what prevents us from doing so is the fear that the entire population of Mexico would pack their bags and move across the Rio Grande since US annexation would make the Mexicans into US nationals, and free movement would be their legal right as per Gonzalez v Williams (US Supreme Court case in 1904).
What prevents you from doing so is having a war and economic instability in your own home. It would be an idiotic move.
USA is currently colonizing the peninsula of Baja California and the moment will come when American citizens will be more than Mexicans and then USA will take again Mexican territory without any problem.
I hope it happens soon. Then the Americans will be obliged to stop their Russian bashing over their annexation of Crimea, or would it be a case of "do what I say, not what I do"?
LOL! I would not want to see violence between the two nations, but I wish I thought the majority of Americans still had that kind of fire in their blood.
How come if most posters come in and post nonsense about colonization in any other country threads the mods quickly lock things up, but Mexico is fair game?
Why didn't the US buy the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people? Say, 5-million extended families in Iraq. We could have given each family $100,000, that would be $500 billion, they'd be friends for life, ISIS with no chance.. Another hundred billion for Saddam Hussien and his family to move in exile to some country that would accept him. Total price, about half of the trillion-plus, that the Bush look-at-me war wound up costing.
Because buying what it wants to take is not how the USA does things. No fun, no glory, no sending the right message..
its not Anglicized yet and the infrastructure isn't there. Plus, you'd have to deal with the cartel crimes
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