The United States border with Mexico has been a chaotic border most of its existence. Mexican gangs, and even the Mexican army, have crossed it many times to raid American towns. And American military units have crossed the border south to track down and kill Mexican gangs numerous times. Criminals wanted by one government or the other have crossed over the border to get away from the law for literal centuries now. It’s a national past time for criminals, and basically no attempt to fully close the border has ever been fully effective. Different administrations over the last hundred years have deported millions of Mexicans who crossed the border illegally, often by using the military, but actually closing the border and keeping it closed has always been a very difficult process.
Now the United States of America had come a long way to negotiate with the Mexicans over the border, and some of the exchanges had been unkind. Some unkind words had been thrown back and forth. Some bullets. But the United States is a generous neighbor, so we chose to forget those unkind words and gave Mexico a bunch of gold in exchange for Mexican territory west of Texas all the way to the West Coast. California, here we come. As is sometimes the nature of agreements, there was some disagreement over what territory exactly belonged to whom. So a few years later, the United States bellied up to the bar with some more gold, and asked if Mexico wanted to negotiate some more, American style, or take the gold and come to a final agreement. Mexico took the money, walked out of the bar, and we’ve been in agreement over the border ever since. Oh… wait…
When it came time to negotiate over the border between the United States and Mexico, the American negotiators chose to meet the Mexican negotiators in the Mexican Capital. With a large number of very well armed American Marines and Texas Rangers. That’s called a power move in the negotiating environment. Especially since the Mexican army was not allowed to sit in on negotiations due to having been largely thrashed by the American Marines and Texas Rangers while escorting the American negotiators to Mexico city. The negotiators quickly came to an agreement on the border between Texas and Mexico. The Rio Grande River.
The United States and Mexico settled on the border between our nations after the Republic of Texas and Mexico got into their second dustup over whether or not Texas existed. Mexico said no and we’re going to kill you dirty rebels. Texas said yes and we’re going to shoot you first. And the United States bellied on up to the bar and said we’d like to have some input on this. Maybe we can talk things over? In Mexico City. So the United States Marines and the Texas Rangers took a little road trip down to Mexico City. Mexico did not by the way agree to the road trip, and in fact tried to stop it. And that’s how the Marines added “To the Halls of Montezuma” to the Marine Anthem. It’s amazing how many lines in that anthem were inscribed via extreme violence.
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