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The Legacy of Walls
The year is 2,050 and the former citizens of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California dwell under a Mexican
flag with a new name, Greater Mexico. The boundaries of the new territory include the entire state of Texas, west across
the 35th. Parallel, bisecting New Mexico and Arizona all the way to the town of Santa Maria on the Pacific Ocean.
These boundaries were established (after forty years of repeated clashes with Mexico over illegal immigrants)
when the United Nations peace keeping troops could no longer control the borders, and upon Mexico’s claim that
their forefathers had been the rightful owners of the land before it was taken from them 200 years before.
The United Nations, led by China, and joined by most of Europe, voted to partition the contested land.
It was not a new claim. For years some Hispanic Americans and college students belonged to a secret society that
endorsed this claim. During World War1, in a famous secret dispatch, the Zimmermann telegram, Mexico received an
German offer of this territory in the expectation of Mexico’s support of Germany and their eventual victory.
During the Second World War, the United States kept a wary eye on Mexico in case the Japanese made a similar offer.
But the United States, with the bankruptcy of financial markets due to the foreseen shortage of oil and energy, the
calling in of foreign debt by former Middle Eastern allies and the snub by European leaders, found themselves lacking allies,
money and manpower. During the preceding thirty years, the Republicans and Democrats had lacked will power and indulged in
a game of tit for tat, refusing to cooperate on vital issues while each party wooed Hispanic voters with vague promises on immigration.
The only solution, equally condemned or praised, was an ineffectual wall to keep the illegal’s out. By the time the partition was
declared, the total number of legal and illegal Hispanics living in those former states was 60 times more than it had been thirty
years before.
When the United State fought and lost the brief war of partition with Mexico, whose military been secretly supplied
and trained by Asian allies, the Mexicans swarmed into the territory taking over the homes, lands and businesses of
the Americans of the Southwest. The defeated intelligentsia finding themselves without their offices, clinics
and businesses exiled themselves to the remains of the United States. Poor Americans were moved into Greater
Mexico refugee camps where they were sheltered and fed by the United Nations Those Americans who were out of
the state when the war had erupted, were denied re- entry into the territory as were the college students who
had gone to study abroad. The Americans who were left, determined to regain their land, became resistance fighters
(deemed terrorists by Mexico). Neighboring states, Colorado and Louisiana, smuggled guns and ammunition to the
resistance and Great Britain, the Americans’ only ally, defied the boycott by providing money. But each time the
resistance/terrorists fought the Mexicans, they lost and Mexico gained more territory, up to the 40th.Parallel,
including the city of San Francisco. The human toll was heavy, three Americans killed for every Mexican. The
guilty Americans’ homes were destroyed in retribution.
When a quasi peace resumed after the war, Mexico encouraged more immigration to the territory and authorized building
on the seized Americans’ land despite protests from the United Nations. Mexico promoted tourism to the eager Europeans
who came to celebrate the Spanish culture and visist the old Spanish missions and forts.
After years of unrest, China took the lead in promoting a peace talk which ultimately failed because Mexico
declared against the ‘law of return’ for those exiles that yearned for their former country. To quell regular bouts of
resistance’/terrorism, Mexico gave up several tightly regulated land areas which were strategically placed a great distance
from each other to prevent a unification of the remaining Americans. With a further showing of good will, Mexico built a new
concrete and steel wall around the liberated areas, unlike the ones that the United States had erected many years before
to keep the Mexicans out.
This wall kept the troublesome Americans… inKatie O'Sullivan
Email: Katie O'Sullivan
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