Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Texas has done a very good job of securing their borders with the help of the federal government. California has done a good job.
For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.
Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.
Mexico has proven by now that it's a strong electoral democracy. Now we have to build a democracy that produces better results; if not, then you get a democracy of disenchantment.
What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?
Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico.
If I'm the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to the benefit of Mexico.
Texas has more effectively capitalized on its opportunities as a border state, and I've always said that I want to look to states that are doing better than we are and replicate those success stories in Arizona.
It's always bothersome when California does something better than Texas.
I saw that the incorporation of Texas into this Union would be indispensable both to her safety and ours. I saw that it was impossible she could stand as an independent power between us and Mexico without becoming the scene of intrigue of foreign powers, alike destructive of the peace and security of both Texas and ourselves.
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