Things like drumhead court marshals, followed by some expedited shootings? MS-13 gangs do not have good responses to artillery barrages and air strikes, followed by armor. Civil wars don't have ROEs.
It somehow sounds like Pancho Villa rides again...
Make a deal. Allow every resident of Guatemala or Honduras free residency to some unused state like Connecticut or North Dakota in exchange
“It somehow sounds like Pancho Villa rides again...”
Either that or the legacy of Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón (Santa Anna) remains firmly in place.
Don’t the cartels pretty much run everything down there? If Mexico is now helping us with central American illegals, it’s only because they are worried about us crimping their drug trade.