Does anyone know how much a Good Neighbor (Mexican or Canadian) pays to illegally cross the border?

The reason I ask is because I don't understand why we don't provide an alternative process. With very few infrastructure improvements US towns could provide a cheaper and safer process for farm workers, construction laborers and house keepers to work in the US and for US employers to employ.

The current procedure is to pay the local smuggler to illegally get you across the border. The smuggler either owns his own small business or is an employee of a larger business. I imagine the farmer pays say $3000.00 to the local Smuggling Business. The CEO of the local smuggling business uses the money to pay his infrastructure costs (boats, redesigned cars, guns, water bottles, etc), to employees who provide the escort service and banks the rest. It must be a solid business opportunity because even with the downturn in today's economy I continue to see day workers on corners waiting for their next job.

The future smart business decision for the USA would be to provide a cheaper, safer, legal procedure for our Good Neighbors who want to work in the US to work in the US. It is time we enabled illegal immigrants to stand in line at the nearby DMVs (in Mexico/Canada or USA) and pay for the right to work in the US, instead of paying for the illegal crossing.

Does anyone know how many towns in American have an illegal immigrant community?

If each of those communities' DMVs had to hire one employee to process the registration applications and hand out the licenses, how many Americans would have self sustaining jobs? These would not be jobs that go away when the funds dry up - the only way these jobs would dry up is if our good neighbors' country provided jobs at least as well paying as the jobs in America.

No matter what the cost, the funds would keep coming in - because just like everything else in our lives, it costs to renew it! How would this registration money be divided up? I like the 20 percent rule. 20% for administrative costs (i.e., the local DMV keeps), 40% to the Town/City, 20 % percent to the state and 20% to the federal government.

So does anyone know how much the worker pays to follow the illegal process? Does anyone know how many communiities in America have a significant illegal immigrant community?