You can bet La Raza and others are working on a modern version of this including a Fifth Column component made up of American politicians.
Something different now than it was then is value of the contraband. Every high school kid in America has ready access to Mexican drugs, IIRC we collectively consume about 400 tons of just cocaine alone each year, as more than an estimated 30 billion US dollars per annum flows south across the Border. That sort of money could probably buy a lot of people.
Birdwatcher
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
