What about building a “New Mexico City” on the border with Mexico, extending the presumably fortified wall around its northern periphery (it would be on the border and largely inside Mexico), make it some sort of economic opportunity zone but its population would be considered Mexican not American and its people would not have voting or travelling rights in America. It would not affect NM’s small number of votes in the electoral college.
Policing in New Mexico City could be a joint venture of the U.S. and Mexican government. I am not talking about enlarging Ciudad Juarez across from El Paso, this would be located about 50-100 miles west of the Rio Grande. It could be a sort of Mexican Las Vegas. Perhaps several million of your illegals would be happy to go there, either resume or take up Mexican citizenship, and have economic opportunities as created by the two countries.
Trump’s tariff announcement seems to have created the false equivalence of Mexico and Canada in some minds, I don’t believe that even 1% of illegals now in your country entered from Canada and most who did were booked on connecting flights telling your customs people they were on holiday. I don’t see what we can do about that in Canada, we can ask at our customs, “are you going on to the U.S. and are you going on holiday and is that a lie?” but you can ask too and turn them back inside our airports (when we go to the U.S. from Canada, we go through U.S. customs inside our airport buildings as well as upon arrival at destination).
So cleaning up most illegal entry from Canada is really a responsibility of your customs officers (border guards if you wish). And they do catch a lot and turn them back, meanwhile there are locations not official border crossings where you could in theory enter the U.S., but you would trip off electronic warnings in a system of U.S. customs and police stations near the border, and typically, if you were an illegal told to cross and meet “a guy in a pick-up” on some remote forestry road, everybody in nearby Wherever, USA would know about it an hour before that pick-up truck could navigate 30 miles of washboard forest service road and come out to a highway two miles outside Wherever to be met by six squad cars and a few armed border guards.
That has happened with drug smuggling and I believe it happens on a regular basis with human smuggling operations. There aren’t really that many easily accessible non-official border crossings. People might look at a map of the prairies and plains states and say, it’s all flat country easily crossed but actually it’s miles and miles between roads near the borders and you would need to know the country very well to cross. Recently, a family of four from India froze to death in a blizzard illegally crossing from North Dakota to Manitoba about two miles west of the official border crossing. I’m sure their crossing was noted electronically in the Canadian border town nearby, but it was a very severe blizzard and their bodies were not discovered for several days. But I do believe authorities knew somebody had crossed, they didn’t make it to the waiting pick-up who was probably lost in the blizzard also.
It’s a dismal situation for both our countries, we are being punished for our success basically, and undermined by corruption although I think that was more of a factor in your country under Biden. In our case, it’s more of a challenge to up our game which is already fairly good. We don’t have ten million illegals here, maybe 100,000 tops. Even per capita that is ten times better. I suppose you could credit Canadian winter with that accomplishment more than any government officials.
“What about building a “New Mexico City” on the border with Mexico”
I was thinking about Gadsdenland - a small part of the 29,600 square miles purchased.
“U.S. Minister to Mexico James Gadsden, and three envoys of the President of Mexico General Antonio López de Santa Anna Pérez de Lebrón, signed the Gadsden Purchase, or Gadsden Treaty, in Mexico City on December 30, 1853. Santa Anna needed money to help defray expenses caused by the Mexican War and ongoing rebellions, so he sold land to the United States. The treaty, amended and finally approved by the U.S. Senate on April 25, 1854, settled the dispute over the exact location of the Mexican border west of El Paso, Texas, giving the U.S. claim to some 29,600 square miles of land, ultimately for the price of $10 million. The land is what is now southern New Mexico and Arizona.”
https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/december-30/
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-gadsden-purchase-and-a-failed-attempt-at-a-southern-railroad
No sale. Mexico can build a city to house the invaders if they wish—we are done with them.