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The more extreme advocates for border security suggest chasing Mexican drug cartel types down inside Mexico.
When cartels are shooting at U.S. Border Patrol and other folks from across the border, this is obviously tempting.
However, one needs to be aware of the history between the United States and Mexico. And that is not just about the war between Texas and Mexico in 1835-36 and the Mexican American war of 1846-48 when the United States had troops in Mexico City, the Tucson Citizen reported Tuesday.
One must first understand that due to conflicts between Texans and Americans between 1835 and 1848 Mexico lost half its territory to the United States. In 1853 then Mexican President Santa Ana sold a piece of Sonora to the United States (the Gadsden Purchase) for $10 million U.S. dollars which he reportedly pocketed.
Besides those events, many U.S. residents do not realize how many times the United States has invaded Mexico.
Between 1850 and 1860 there were campaigns called “filibusters” during which U.S. citizens with private armies invaded Mexico in attempts to seize Sonora and Baja California.
One such “filibuster” attempt ended with the U.S. invaders being rounded up in Caborca, Sonora, and executed, the Tucson Citizen reported.
Over and over again one can hear laments that when the United States made the Gadsden Purchase, we didn’t go far enough south to get a port on the Gulf of California.
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