What might America take from a Crippled Mexico in WW1

I had an idea that is pretty unrealistic, but I was still curious non the less. Suppose that America takes the Northern States of Mexico in the Mexican American War [Baja California, Sonora, Sinaloa, Durango, Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila and Tamaulipas]. Ignoring Butterflies and assuming WW1 still occurs, what might the US take from this smaller Mexico if it was a Central Power?
 
This should be moved to After 1900.

Anyway, the most i can see the US annexing would be Baja California and part of Sonora, as an outlet to the Gulf of California.
 
Why? The OP begins with the US annexing northern Mexico as part of the Mexican-American War.
Well, i'm confused. The title implies "Mexican Revolution", while the description says "Mexican-American War".
EDIT: nevermind, i understood now.
 
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Well assuming there is a WWI, not much. The US owns the parts that were extracting oil at the time already, and has all the sparsely populated areas that could be plausibly assimilated, the rest has too many Mexicans to assimilate and would lead to guerilla war if occupied. Most likely they put in a puppet government, get some economic concessions, possibly reparations, and call it a day. At most a base at say Acapulco, the Revillagigedo and Marias islands. Course with a POD that early butterflies mean a WWI looking exactly like OTLs is less than likely
 
Well assuming there is a WWI, not much. The US owns the parts that were extracting oil at the time already, and has all the sparsely populated areas that could be plausibly assimilated, the rest has too many Mexicans to assimilate and would lead to guerilla war if occupied. Most likely they put in a puppet government, get some economic concessions, possibly reparations, and call it a day. At most a base at say Acapulco, the Revillagigedo and Marias islands. Course with a POD that early butterflies mean a WWI looking exactly like OTLs is less than likely

That's what I was thinking to
 
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