Trade-offs

If Congress and the President are about to sell us out on immigration, as apparently they are, they ought to at least get us something back for it. no, I don't mean the Republicrats need to give something to the Democrans, or vice-versa. WE need to get something from Mexico.

We're being asked to take in about 10 million Mexicans (plus assorted stragglers from other countries), which is about 10% of their national population, in order to relieve the pressures on one of the most autocratic, corrupt, and imbecilic governments that has graced this planet over the past 500 years. I think they owe us.

Specifically, I think they owe us about 20% of their land area. This would be the states of Baja California, Baja California Sur, and Sonora. The existing populations will have to leave, but, hey, that's not our problem.

If the government of Mexico has a better proposal, like all of the Yucatan and Chiapas, where a lot of these desperate people come from to start with, we can listen. Especially if it includes a few areas with nice beaches and/or unexplored oil reserves.

(Strawman follows) Some will argue that such a transfer is unthinkable. Nonsense, I say! Did they not earlier cede all of the southwest to the U.S.? Did they not lose Texas to a small band of settlers? Hell, the only people they've ever managed to resist, were the French. Besides, isn't this a big step toward that North American Union some people are so crazy for?