Open Letter to Hillary Rodham Clinton

Dear Secretary,

What better way to solve the illegal immigration problem than to annex Mexico, give it commonwealth status, and turn all those illegals into instant legals? No more surreptitious sneaking back and forth, no more sucking off our colonial teats, no more bitter, largely uneducated, "second class" citizens depleting resources that are under another country's stewardship, no more avoiding taxes and sneering in the face of the USA legal system by making a dash for the border. After all, if we're truly the Land of Plenty, lets acommodate the "tired, poor and huddled masses yearning to be free". 

Mexico is largely a lush, sprawling land of rich diversity and tremendous natural resources.  All we have to do is 'adopt' Mexico and it's citizenry, rid the country of it's corrosives, toxins, gangsters, murderers, political corruption, and unbridled mayhem, make it a bit more hygenic, ecologically responsible, and less polluting, mandate that it take  concepts such as  civil liberties, womens rights and kindness to other creatures more seriously, and reevaluate its National priorities. 

No more fences, or slinking across the border via the Coyote Express....no more of this macho, bad boy Sureno vs Norteno crap....no more greedy vicious cartels terrorizing folks with impunity.

The Mexican people would gain legal status and all the benefits   and responsibilities that go along with it,  and not only would This Land be Your Land, but That Land would be Your 

Land too. And of course This Land, as well as That Land would also be Their Land.    If English-speaking Canada can tolerate (and coexist with) Quebec, than we should be able to swing a deal with Mexico. After all, we're already a bilingual country - look at much of our signage and packaging! 

And if you think the U.S. annexing Mexico isn't such a great idea, perhaps Mexico would like to annex us.

The turbulence that continues to churn up the Rio Grande foams with toxins, corrosives and heartache. Krazy Killer Kartels out of control, wholesale beheadings, murder, mayhem. Nafta doesn't work, Mexicans stream across the border with virtual impunity, melt into the migratory menudo, cut your lawn, feed your kids...and become 'virtual' citizens sans documentation.

I think the best way to get control over these issues is to legalize marijuana and annex Mexico. We bring 100 million people under our benificent National Umbrella, make sure they're fed, educated, repaired and happy, and we get to share in Mexico's bountiful, largely untapped natural resources. No more Fence, sneaking across borders, surreptitiousness, unholy conflagrations, hungry campesinos. We'll all have lots more room, more cultural wealth and geophysical diversity, cheaper Ganja, and a greater World Presence - and less hostility, divisiveness and poverty. We can make Mexico our 51st state and if Canada, Belgium and Switzerland can deal with being multilingual countries, so can we. 

It may sound like a totally harebrained scheme but some of the most productive ideas are the products of out-of-the-box thinking.

If you have the time and inclination, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.

Any opinions or comments would be most welcome.

Appreciatively,

Stephen D. Gross

Guerneville, CA