Question:
Would we be as worried about illegal immigation on the southern border if there was a large area of happy business/farmers/ranchers on the Mexico side instead of armed quasi-military murderous drug cartels? I believe the cartels are the real threat. The fear that they are going to export their culture of violence across the borders IMO the true threat. Anyone who has been paying attention to Laredo/Neuvo Laredo knows what I mean. Mexico has lost complete control of the northern half of its land.
Also, perhaps the drop in supposed illegal immigration is because of the drop in the economy, so I guess the Democrats/Eugenicists got their way by forcing a banking/housing collapse /sick-burn:cloward-piven (sorry Aquizzar - couldnt resist )
Mexico is probably in danger of losing more than the northern half of the country. The cartels seem to pervade everywhere and corruption is rampant (like we didn't know that already). While it seems politically stable now, if the cartels undermine the top government or even topple it and Mexico becomes even worse than it is now and becomes some kind of dictatorial-narco state controlled by violent cartels (think Italian mob, but much, much, much more violent), how will the US situation be then?
It would become REALLY scary when we have a rogue state right next door with a very real chance of confrontation. I know we have dealt with dictatorships in the region before, but they were either on an island or relatively distant. With the exception of Cuba with its Russian ally, the other dictatorships in the region didn't pose a threat to us.
@Nikov: Thats REVOLUTIONARY war, not british civil war.
Wasnt the English Civil war (AKA war of the roses I think) in the 1400s or something?
Edit: Checked wiki, it was in the 1600s.
Edit2: The one in the 1400s is the war of the roses I was thinking about. Got the two different wars confused.