Keep in mind too you have to add Soviet Division Cuba in there as well
Based on what was really in Cuba in real life when the Soviet Union collapsed and extrapolating how they would have been armed you could be looking at 11,000 men and some 120 tanks (with them bringing some Cuban T-62's and T54/55's with them to supplement the T-72's and T-80's in canon) and a good amount of BMP's and BTR's as well plus attack helicopters
that gives them a heck of an edge in Texas - especially if the Soviets had helicopters and the US didn't have much air power left due to fuel shortages and lack of aircraft - and the Cubans, who would have been short on gasoline of their own, might have given the Soviets most of their helicopter fleet to use themselves, giving the Soviets a big advantage over US units that might have almost no air support of their own
so that right there gives the Mexican invasion the teeth it needs to succeed at least in Texas
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