MEXICO: Declare bloodless war

There is a lot of anger and anguish about a border wall with Mexico. The real question is why these people come up here waving Mexican flags? I submit they love their country, but it is hopelessly corrupt and controlled by bloodthirsty drug cartels. There is no way a wall will stop desperate people looking for freedom.

How to resolve such a problem? Here is a cheaper solution.

Declare war on Mexico.

Their feeble military would simply surrender and Mexico would become a U.S. territory under U.S. law like Guam, Puerto Rico, Samoa and former territories Cuba, the Philippines, Hawaii and Alaska. The cartels and the corrupt government would be eliminated and the poor and what’s left of the middle class could then have the freedoms that Americans enjoy and their country (territory) could be brought up from third to first class status. After the 50 years needed to clean the country up, Mexico could vote on independence or state(s)hood.

As Mexico doubles its population every 29 years, the problem won’t go away with current methods. An “amicable” war solves the problem.

RICHARD LE FRANCIS

Coeur d’Alene