One easy solution was to outlaw slavery, most Mexicans are against it by now time to

get with the program gringos

but the newbs ignore that attempt. So outlaw immigration? Ignored as well. If only you were awake to revel in the historic irony of white Texan illegal immigrants.

Then Texas being Texas they claimed independence, looking to the US to eventually bail them out. Only, the US isn’t so sure that they want

another slave state

especially not one so large. See, some people in the north are learning how to not be such assholes. At least not so transparently.

Industrialization and transitioning from

literal slavery to wage slavery

will do that to you.

Don’t have to feed or house them, just pay subsistence wages. Less overhead, smaller HR costs.