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“With all the radical solutions on offer here, nobody has come up with the ideal one: invade Mexico, and make it part of the U.S.”

I assume that this is rhetoric, but let’s take the idea seriously.

Instead of proposing invasion or even offering it as a possibility, let’s float the idea that we would like to welcome Mexico into the Union.

Will the Mexicans go for it? They either will or they won’t. If they won’t, nothing has been lost.

Our sincere argument will go as follows:

Look, Southern friends, sorry about those crazy Filibusters like William Walker and sorry about taking half your country, but you know as well as we do that our hands are no dirtier than yours. That’s why you bear us no grudge, and why we bear you no grudge, and why we get along so well.

Here is the deal: you ratify the US Constitution and then we will work on the details, but the US Constitution will control, because for all the ways
in which we admire you, we don’t envy you your system of government.

The above is far less fanciful than supposing that Britons and Germans and Greeks and Poles and Italians and the French can live under a single government.

Anyway. It would be the best solution for both, but just politically impossible….wouldn’t it?

I’m sure some pretext could be whipped up, but why invent one? Isn’t this immigration wave a casus belli in itself? Surely, if illegal workers are the menace some think they are, and the Mexican government isn’t doing its part — nay, even appreciates all the repatriated income — that’s reason enough, isn’t it?

The masses converging on the border are Masses. They destroy American livelihoods with their acceptance of low-ball wages — so that’s Destruction. And the Mexican government doesn’t seem to mind, so it’s almost like they are using this Mass Destruction against the U.S. — it’s like a … a … a kind of weapon! A Weapon of Mass Destruction. WMD! Slam-dunk, Mr. President.

Also, Mexico has oil. But let’s play that fact down for now.

Just saying…

Changing bed pans with no health benefits ? Uh…yeah. But we should at least give those hardy souls a living wage and medical insurance.

In media we use quotes around statements from other writers. It’s perfectly clear. It ain’t happening. No one will show up. There won’t be a job. No one will make a bigger bureaucracy than a Republican.

Your sentence is unclear so I am not sure what your are trying to say. But even you would admit the democrat’s alternative plan is more bureaucratic.