Why shouldn’t Mexico compensate us for illegal aliens?

[ilbegone]

It will never happen, it's a pipe dream to even contemplate the notion.

The late 19th - early 20th century Mexican President Porfirio Diaz (who re-elected himself a number of times, a virtual dictator) sold his country to foreigners who strip mined mineral wealth and left nothing behind for Mexico, one of the many causes for the 1910 Mexican revolution. It was said to the effect that Porfirio gave Mexico a bath and dressed her up - making her presentable to the world but still corrupt inside and stinking to the core.

In the 1930's, there were negotiations between the Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas and American oil corporations, much which had to do with poverty wages for Mexican employees of those companies, and other issues such as medical care and the like. The Americans insulted Cardenas to his face, in front of everyone (I believe it was something like "what'r you going to do about it, boy?). Cardenas kicked the Americans out and nationalized the Mexican oil industry. Pemex is now in ruins, embezzled and mismanaged nearly to death, but the important thing to Mexican nationalism is that it's Mexican owned - no foreigners involved.

And a Texas politician demanding compensation from Mexico?

Lots of derisive laughter from Mexico city. Part of the Mexican national identity sees Texas as torn from Mexico by invasive Gringos. There is little consideration that that the Canary Islanders dumped in Texas by Spain weren't a sufficient population buffer for the northern territorial claim, and that a faction of post independence Mexican government had invited foreigners to immigrate and be naturalized. There is little mention of 1830's Mexican centralists, royalists, liberals, conservatives, Santa Anna sniffing the political winds, abrogation of the 1824 Mexican constitution, and the fact that the Texas rebellion initially included both naturalized and natural born Mexican citizens is side stepped. Texas born Mexicans were described at the time as being Mexican by birth only, as their speech and mannerisms were greatly affected by the people with whom they traded and came into contact the most - which weren't people from central Mexico.

No compensation from Mexico for driving their citizens into the US.