BAJA: Our 51st state?

When The United States took Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California from Mexico, we immediately made every Mexican living on that land an American citizen. Organizations like La Raza, “The Race” — a Mexican version of the Arian Nation — pretend that we took the land from the Mexican people. Of course, the Spaniards did that and gave all the land to themselves as Spanish land grants. The Mexican people received nothing for the taking — not even Native American type reservations.

With the mass border crossings from Mexico into the U.S. over the last 100 years, it has become outrageously obvious that the Mexican people wish that we had taken all of Mexico. This fact has become embarrassingly obvious to the Mexican government and is the reason they are now sending Guatemalans across our border to deny this truth.

The ever larger migration across our border from Mexico makes it astoundingly clear that the time has come to absorb Mexico and finally make it a part of the United States. As a first step, we need to relocate all those who cross our border illegally from Mexico — and take them to the state of Baja California. Finally we must announce to the world that we are in the process of absorbing this Mexican state in preparation for making it our 51st state.

STEVE NOVAK

Coeur d’Alene