Inthemiddle
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To follow up on this, imagine where Mexico might be now if, instead of fighting the current, they'd welcomed the US immigrants. The Texicans were never that excited about joining with the US and only did so reluctantly. If Mexico has handled it differently, if they'd encouraged the settlers and used their influx to build a stronger nation, they'd probably still hold Texas, and probably be in much better shape now.
Your argument, then, is that the only way they could have maintained their sovereign claim to the area would have been to abandon it.
The problem was that they shouldn't have opened the flood gates to unfettered immigration in the first place. BTW, your history is entirely warped. The Republic of Texas declared independence before there was any talk of joining the Union. They didn't do it just to become part of the US. They did it because they didn't want to be part of Mexico. That's why they fought a war with Mexico over their independence.