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== [[Advertising]] ==
* The above picture comes from an ad for Swedish Vodka that only ran in Mexico. That there was [[Internet Backdraft|a backlash]] when it was leaked into the USA is putting it mildly. This [https://web.archive.org/web/20121019112713/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,346964,00.html news article] will explain better anything about the ad and the controversy.
== [[Film]] ==
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* In ''Tom Clancy's HAWX'', the title squadron flies to Ciudad Juarez due to Mexican rebels going into the United States to escape retribution from government forces.
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* Inverted in ''[[xkcd]]''
▲* Inverted in ''[[xkcd]]''; a comic showing a handful of satellite operators who start debating the situation with Israel and Palestine when the sat reaches that general area get shut down by their boss moving the sat to Oklahoma, which another technician calls "Occupied North Texas". Leading to the boss sighing and just telling him to shut up.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* The Nation of Aztlan movement has this as its goal.
* [[Imperial Germany]] during [[World War
** Mexican President Carranza actually had the Mexican Army's General Staff analyze the Zimmerman Note and what Germany was offering, and turned down the offer on the grounds that 1) holding and occupying the states in question would have been a nightmare; 2) German financial assistance was meaningless in that the only country capable of supplying Mexico enough arms to attack the United States was ''the United States itself!'' and 3) No German military assistance was immediately forthcoming due to Germany's own situation in Europe and Allied shipping patrols in the Atlantic. Carranza correctly concluded that the Zimmerman Note was a case of Germany saying to Mexico "[[Let's You and Him Fight]]" in an effort to keep the U.S. out of [[World War
* [[wikipedia:George Friedman|George Friedman]], in his novel ''The Next 100 Years'', details his very broad political predictions for the 21st century and states that Mexico will at least attempt this by 2100, due to Mexico's likely stabilization (he points out China has been in chaos in the recent past and overcome that chaos), its population growth and the US population decline.
* This may become a moot point if the United States, Mexico, [[And Zoidberg|and Canada]] continue their economic integration and extend it into the political sphere. Some people even envision a common economy and currency (the "amero"; though given the near-identical value of the US and Canadian dollars, some advocates say they should just be merged as the "North American dollar"), and open borders based on the EU model. However, there are substantial sentiments in all three countries ''against'' further integration, and the Drug War, the HUGE debt of the U.S. that would be passed on mostly debt-free countries, along with the terrible paying habits of U.S. that would generate even more debt and the underdeveloped economy (and lawless areas controlled by the heavily-armed drug cartels) of Mexico are bigger obstacles.
** The US reaction to 9/11 killed the "open borders" idea, and the [[Donald Trump|Trump]] administration did their best to dismantle the economic integration that previously existed.
* Inverted by [[wikipedia:51st state#Mexico|the suggestion]] that Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León would be on the shortlist of Mexican states to join the U.S., being closer to [[Everything Is Big in Texas|Texas]] than the rest of Mexico.
** As recently as the 1980s the annexation of Baja California was proposed as a means of alleviating Mexico's foreign debt owed to the United States.
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