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The news came subsequently governors from the 10 marge states met with U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff at the Border Governors Conference in Los Angeles.

"Everyone agrees that we extremity to stretch the windpipe … which means that we can get more people across quicker, more efficiently," Schwarzenegger told reporters at a news conference. "And there is a lack of money right now … maybe people pay a certain amount to advance surly. Let's assume $5. Don't hold me to that but that would then liquidate the bonds so we can develop infrastructure."

Other options, Schwarzenegger said, include charging to application certain lanes of exchange at the border.

"All of this has to be thought through," he said, referring to such a plan as a "public-private partnership."

Such plans inclination be critical to making all kinds of infrastructure improvements everywhere California in the years to come, Schwarzenegger said, adding that the state would need $500 billion of investment in infrastructure in the nearest 20 years.

In a joint description the governors called for a substantial reduction in wait state of things to cross the margin by means of 2013, and backed a drive by U.S. and Mexican founded on agencies for funding to hire more border inspectors.

They also backed measures to curb crime in the borderlands, including human and gun trafficking.

(Reporting by Nichola Groom; Additional reporting by Tim Gaynor in Phoenix; Editing by Bill Trott and Cynthia Osterman)