The remarkably easy solution to Special Interest Aliens crossing the Mexican border doesn’t even need the direct help of the federal government. And it is very cost effective.
Bounties. Paid to Mexicans.
Just south of the border, you can get most anything you want, and enthusiastically, for $500. Likely for even $100. Such amounts seem enormous there.
So let’s make a deal. If a Mexican sees a non-Mexican trying to illegally cross into the US, he makes a phone call and is given a random five digit number. If, and only if, that suspect is detained, do they get the bounty.
Perhaps $100 for a nobody. $500 if the border crosser is interesting. And the astronomical sum (for them) of $1000 if the arrested crosser is a high value target.
In a few days, they call that phone number again, give their five digit number as a password, and are connected with someone who will arrange to give them their money, in cash, in a public place in a northern Mexican city, with no notification to any local or federal Mexican authorities.
Imagine trying to illegally cross the border with a thousand hungry eyes watching your every move. Mexicans would have no problem nicking non-Mexicans. And even if the SIA contracted with a smuggler, is there any doubt that the smuggler would take their money, and then turn them over for more money?
The very best part of this idea is that it could be an entirely private enterprise. And it wouldn’t even take a very rich person to do it. But the end result would be that even if the border was still open to Mexicans, if say, an Iranian Al-Quds terrorist tried to cross, he would be as nailed as a pig in a hungry tiger cage.
Good idea.
I'll go one better: Bounties. Paid to Americans. In America. But make it $300 for a "nobody" and $2,000 for an SIA (after all, the cost of living is higher here...).
Just think... for around 12,000,000 ("official" legal alien #) x $300 (per each) = $6.6 billion we could solve the illegal alien problem within our borders.
That's chump change - not even a fraction of what it costs Kalifornia for their illegal alien welfare payments. As an added bonus, we could also solve a lot of our unemployment problems both by getting rid of our excess underground and untaxed "cheap" labor but by hiring Americans to do the roundup job.
Don't tell me it can't or won't be done. Bail bondsmen all around the country have just the certified guys on staff willing to make a lot of extra cash for themselves and their employers.