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Not a bad idea - why hasn't the US thought of it?
There are only two reasons for Mexicans to come to the US - one is on vacation, the other would be a Work Visa arranged through a US Consulate in Mexico BEFORE the trip was made.
That's how I entered France when I was posted here by an American company.
As for the wall, forget it. It will not be nice, but in the border states, the police need only to start asking people for their "identification". And it is shame the US does not have an identity card - apart from a passport, which a minor percentage of American obtain. If the US had National Identity Cards, that checkpoint would be easily passed.
Identity cards are national in nature, where as a driver's licence is state emitted. An American passport is not easily falsified but if we had parametric coding of pictures that tie the card to a national identity database the police could tell automatically if an identity card was falsified. (We will also get to where a point identification of ADN will be possible with portable equipment.)
And if someone has no means of identification, either a passport or the ID-card, then off they go back "home" - do not pass Go, do not collect $100.
This sort of control might be too much for some Americans (who think freedom is "to do what I wanna do, when I wanna do it, and where I wanna do it". Which is childish nonsense. We cannot have both national security an no means of identity-checking that are instantaneous.
A recent study has shown that Americans are having enough children to sustain an economy for the near and far future. We don't really need migrants unless it is for specific-work, and a Visa will allow entry-and-exit for job-specific purposes.
Here are the latest stats on foreign inmates of our prisons. They amount to almost 20% of the entire population!
If Central and South America do not know how to generate enough employment for their people, they should learn how to do so - or have programs allowing less births. (It's for the US to pick up their "slack". The US should accept only those for whom there is a justified need.)
It is neither the task nor the necessity of either the US or Canada to offer free citizenship to all comers. And the notion that "I deserve citizenship because I am here" is bunk. Canadians don't do that in America, why should Central Americans expect it?
America will have in the future enough of a task employing its own people ...