Let me jump in for a minute, then I'll leave you guys to battle it out
We "could" have another Ellis Island.
We don't
Why?
Politics! Control!
Before heading out to liberate some 3rd world craphole from tyranny and opression, why not start with the one a mere 80+ miles off our own coast?
Free Cuba and you stem some problems.
Mexico? That could be handled in a matter of months politically. Again, it's money and power that fail both