Mexico Essay

Time and time again, we have learned just how deeply the histories of the U.S and Mexico are intertwined into the U.S. - Mexico border. It is a history, which the more conservative members of our government, find it all too easy to ignore. The ever growing number of Mexican immigrant deaths, leads us to question how it all got to this point. In order to understand our current situation, we must look back on the foundations of the U.S. - Mexico border in order to take note of the residual effects.

After finally winning their independence from Spain, Mexico was left a poor and unstable country; more so, leaving Mexico an easy target for the United States. Other than profit, they had no admissible reason to invade Mexico. Thus starting our emotional, physical and economically abusive relationship with the U.S. Once the United States secured the Louisiana Purchase, they moved on to the states of Florida, and thereafter, Texas. Many North Americans argued, that Texas already belonged to the U.S., and that it had been part of the Louisiana Purchase. The Mexican government, chose to ignore any and all warning signs behind the actions of the U.S.; instead, opening up its arms, to Euro American colonization. Moses Austin, received permission by Spain to settle in Texas; after his death, Moses granted his son the same privilege. Euro American settlers then flocked to Texas, and by the 1830s around 20,000 colonists had settled in the state, along with their slaves. The Mexican government, would have had better luck barring them before this colonization.

Despite agreeing, and vehemently promising, to obey the rules set by the Mexican government, U.S. settlers rebelled in every way possible. Mexico had no way of stopping the large number of i...

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...the numbers would decrease or if by some miracle Mexico’s economy bettered and the violence and corruption became less present things would change. But even if this would all to occur, which is extremely unlikely, there are entire families established in the U.S already.

There are families and networks of people that would probably never fully return home even if it were possible to come and go as they pleased. There are families that will continue to try and reunite. The history and connection between the U.S and Mexico is too deep and too strong to put a stop to the immigrants crossing the border. The best thing to do is to try and minimize the number of deaths that occur and at the very least reunite the bodies of the poor lost souls with their families and offer them closure. After all despite it all we are all human and deserve to be treated as such.