History Main / MexicoCalledTheyWantTexasBack

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* Interestingly, averted in ''Fanfic/IncompatibleSystem''. While a few of the southern states are now allied with Latin America after a near-WorldWarIII had caused a severe case of DividedStatesOfAmerica, Texas is proudly, crazily and loudly independent.
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* Mexican ''Norteño'' group ''Los Tigres Del Norte'' wrote a famous song called ''Somos Mas Americanos'' (Translation: We're More American) that talks about how Mexico owned most land North of the border, were driven out, and made a border to keep Mexicans out. It tackles the subjects of Manifest Destiny and Border Control while begging the question, ''[[HeWhoFightsMonsters "Who Is The Real Invader?"]]

* Mexican ''Norteño'' group ''Los Tigres Del Norte'' wrote a famous song called ''Somos Mas Americanos'' (Translation: We're More American) that talks about how Mexico owned most land North of the border, were driven out, and made a border to keep Mexicans out. It tackles the subjects of Manifest Destiny and Border Control while begging the question, ''[[HeWhoFightsMonsters Who Is The Real Invader]]''?

* Mexican ''Norteño'' group ''Los Tigres Del Norte'' wrote a famous song called ''Somos Mas Americanos'' (Translation: We're More American) that talks about how Mexico owned most land North of the border, were driven out, and made a border to keep Mexicans out. It tackles the subjects of Manifest Destiny and Border Control while begging the question, ''[[MadeOutToBeAJerkass Who Is The Real Invader]]''?

* Mexican ''Norteño'' group ''Los Tigres Del Norte'' wrote a famous song called ''Somos Mas Americanos'' (Translation: "We're More American) that talks about how Mexico owned most land North of the border, were driven out, and made a border to keep Mexicans out. It tackles the subjects of Manifest Destiny and Border Control while begging the question, ''[[MadeOutToBeAJerkass Who Is The Real Invader]]''?

* In the [[VideoGame/KaiserreichLegacyOfTheWeltkrieg Kaiserreich]] mod for [[VideoGame/HeartsOfIron Darkest Hour]], if the [[DividedStatesOfAmerica Second American Civil War]] breaks out Mexico has the option of seizing the opportunity to try and reclaim the lost border territories.

See also DividedStatesOfAmerica. Sister trope of RussiaCalledTheyWantAlaskaBack. See also [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revanchism revanchism]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irredentism irredentism]] which were actual, primarily European, examples of this phenomena.

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* The above picture comes from an ad for Absolut vodka (a Swedish product) that only ran in Mexico. To say that there was [[InternetBackdraft a bit of backlash]] when it was leaked into the USA is putting it mildly.

In 1846, the United States Congress declared war on Mexico following a border skirmish between a Mexican cavalry detachment and a U.S. patrol. Long story short, the US army fought all the way to Mexico City, Mexico lost the fight, and the Mexican government signed the Guadalupe-Hidalgo treaty, in which Mexico transferred to the USA the territories that are nowadays covered by California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado and Oklahoma -- that is, around 60% of its territory (though only a very small part of its population or gross national income) -- in exchange for the sum of 15 million dollars (accounting for inflation, that's about $390 million in 2012). This was later followed by the sale of La Mesilla / purchase of Gadsden for the purpose of building a transcontinental railroad.

** The road to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII started with "Germany called, they'd like to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remilitarization_of_the_Rhineland remilitarize the Rhineland]]." Then it was "Germany called, they want to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss annex Austria]]." [[RuleOfThree And then it was]] "Germany called, they want [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement the Sudetenland back]]". [[RunningGag And then it was]] "Germany called, they want [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaip%C4%97da Memel]] back and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectorate_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia rest of Czechoslovakia]], thank you very much." [[OverlyLongGag And finally, it was]] "Germany called, they want [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gda%C5%84sk Danzig]] and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Corridor Polish Corridor]] back", at which point the rest of the world told them to shut up and stop calling. [[ThisMeansWar They did not]].

[[caption-width-right:265:''[[{{Film/Machete}} THE BORDER CROSSED US!]]'']]

** During the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, due to the fact Germany's eastern border wasn't definitively fixed, UsefulNotes/TheBonnRepublic was making the following sentence resume its policy toward the East : Germany called, they want the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_eastern_territories_of_Germany Ostgebiete]]'' back. This ended after the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, by which Germany recognized the borders and abandoned its claim to Eastern territories. This has also become mute with the European Union and the Schengen Visa allowing Germans to travel back to their ancestral homes in Silesia and Pomerania.

** During the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, due to the fact Germany's eastern border wasn't definitively fixed, TheBonnRepublic was making the following sentence resume its policy toward the East : Germany called, they want the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_eastern_territories_of_Germany Ostgebiete]]'' back. This ended after the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, by which Germany recognized the borders and abandoned its claim to Eastern territories. This has also become mute with the European Union and the Schengen Visa allowing Germans to travel back to their ancestral homes in Silesia and Pomerania.

** The road to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII started with "Germany called, they'd like to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remilitarization_of_the_Rhineland remilitarize the Rhineland]]." Then it was "Germany called, they want to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss annex Austria]]." [[RuleOfThree And then it was]] "Germany called, they want [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement the Sudetenland back]]". [[RunningGag And then it was]] "Germany called, they want [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaip%C4%97da Memel]] back and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectorate_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia rest of Czechoslovakia]], thank you very much." [[OveryLongGag And finally, it was]] "Germany called, they want [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gda%C5%84sk Danzig]] and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Corridor Polish Corridor]] back", at which point the rest of the world told them to shut up and stop calling. [[ThisMeansWar They did not]].

Thus, whenever in speculative fiction you see the United States somehow [[FallenStatesOfAmerica greatly]] [[DividedStatesOfAmerica weakened]], or in the past before the USA became a superpower, you can pretty much be assured the back story will involve Mexico [[InvadedStatesOfAmerica invading]] and conquering at least Texas and California. This is particularly ironic, because Mexico's economy is barely larger than Texas and not even as large as California's; in fact should Mexico hypothetically succeed this very moment in recovering just these two states, the Mexican economy would practically ''triple'' its size. But then again, [[EverythingIsBigInTexas it IS Texas]].

In 1836 the Republic of Texas [[RememberTheAlamo separated]] from its previous [[Usefulnotes/{{Mexico}} Mexican]] rule. After spending the better part of their one sovereign decade attempting to join the United States, Texas was annexed by the USA in 1845. The United States offered Texas security, stable rule, and economic survivability, as many had families in the United States and feared that Mexico had plans to strike once more at Texas, hence this trope. The United States also would protect [[ValuesDissonance the settlers' right to own slaves]] -- these settlers, first invited to Texas by the Mexican government after agreeing to follow Mexican law, balked at Mexico's ban on slavery in 1829, which these slave-owning settlers very much disagreed with. The new Texas immigrants from the United States became known as Texians while the original Hispanic locals were called Tejanos. Texas was originally granted a one-year exemption from the 1829 ban, but Mexican president Anastasio Bustamante ordered that all slaves be freed in the law of April 6th, 1830 which also prevented further emigration to Texas from the United States and increased import taxes. This law didn't stop further immigration as Americans continued to settle Texas illegally. To circumvent the law, many Anglo colonists converted their slaves into indentured servants for life. The slavery aspect is something Texans unsurprisingly tend to gloss over when discussing their state's history. After Santa Anna overthrew president Anastasio Bustamante in 1832 the Mexican government started giving concessions to Texas that included a repeal on the emigration ban, more representation to Texas, and the right to trial by jury. However, Santa Anna had other plans as he overturned the 1824 constitution in 1835 and ordered all state legislatures and militias to be disbanded. The Tejano governor of Texas refused and when Mexican authorities attempted to seize a cannon used for defense against Comanche raiders it led to the Battle of Gonzales which sparked the Texas Revolution.

See also DividedStatesOfAmerica. Sister trope of RussiaCalledTheyWantAlaskaBack

* It is rumoured that the undeclared reason why the British Army was sent into [[TheTroubles Northern Ireland]] in 1969 was to forestall any attempt by the Irish Republic to move its military forces into the predominantly Catholic border counties, in order to preserve peace and prevent ethnic cleansing of Roman Catholics by Protestants. (And incidentally to reinforce the Republic's claim to sovereignty over the whole island of Ireland - you could read this as "Dublin called - we want the Six Counties Back".) It is known the Republic mobilised its armed forces, including reservists, and sent them North in the summer of 1969 to answer the emergency. Informed opinion is that South Armagh, County Tyrone and County Derry would have been occupied for peacekeeping and humanitarian reasons (but the Prot areas would have been left for the British to deal with as their problem).

* In ''Film/RedDawn1984'' several Central/South American countries invaded the US through Mexico after a limited nuclear strike.

* Most of the Western Realm of the Kingdom of the Isles in the ''Literature/RiftwarCycle'' was originally Keshian territory that the Kingdom annexed while Kesh had the bulk of their armies fighting a war on the opposite side of the empire. In several of the novels (Which take place 3-5 ''centuries'' after this had happened) various factions of the Keshian military try to take it back.

* Mexico attempts to take Texas (claiming it belonged to them, even if they were centuries late) at one point in the ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' BackStory, after the incident with the original NSF reveals how weak the US had become. It's [[AllThereInTheManual not mentioned in the main plot, but it is given through in-game media]]. TheNamelessMod mentions it in the fan fiction shop.

* In ''Film/EscapeFromLA'', all of Latin America has been united under [[DirtyCommunists the Shining Path]] and is about to invade the US. Revolutionary agent Cuervo Jones kidnaps and brainwashes the President's daughter in order to seize control of the "Sword of Damocles" EMP satellite superweapon, and plans to use it to lead off the war. [[{{Badass}} Snake Plissken]] is sent into the ruins of UsefulNotes/LosAngeles in order to retrieve the weapon and stop the invasion.

* In the ''Film/WildWildWest'' movie, Mexico was one of the backers of Loveless's plan in exchange for the return of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. That's right, along existing state borders, not the 1848 one.