Remember I said drafted. No perfect people, they too are suspect. Most of the dirt diggers would be out of business or have to become papparazzi.
Aunty M if I was Segundo I would annex Mexico.
Then I could send all the Border patrol, that I didn't assign to the Coast Guard, North to seal the Canadian border. All former citizens of Mexico would automatically become citizens of the United states. The various states in Mexico would acquire the status of states of the Union. I would also bestow statehood on Puerto Rico. (slight smile)The current Navy ordnance test range there would be moved to just off the Cuban coast. That would reduce the flight time and fuel expenditures of the Navy Aircraft units. I would offer Fidel favored nation trading status with the U. S. for a few simple changes in his operational stance.
There are several problems I have not addressed and I suspect I don't really need to address them. However, there are some valid arguments for Annex option. It would take the pressure off the ANWR for one. It would dramatically reduce the need to risk dying in the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico for the seasonal laborer and eliminate the illegals in a stroke. I'm sure the expansion of HEW and HUD would make a lot of bureaucrats so happy they would just pee on their shoes.
Well there, you have it. Over simplified of course. But bandwidthe doesn't allow me to really spell it all out.
BTW I would appoint Lupo and Itchy' Federal Marshals to facilitate the peaceful transition of the new Southern States into the Union and to keep the well known tendency for corruption at a reasonable level.They would also be tasked with stopping the flow of drugs North. The drug cartels are to be handled with extreme prejudice.
Oh I almost forgot. Oregonian, you will become the technical advisor to the new states to show them the advantages of adobe and straw bale building materials over wood.