The answer would be Latin America
Because Approximately half of immigrants living in the United States are from Mexico or other Latin American countries. Many Central Americans are fleeing because of desperate social and economic circumstances created in part by U.S. foreign policy in Central America over many decades.
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Explanation:
Article IV section 3 of the constitution mandates congress to vote on how a new state is to be formed. I do not know the exact terms of how a state is created as a sovereign body, but I suspect any new state would have to go through what Hawaii and Alaska went. These were territories that were not carved out of an existing state so the problem was not complicated by two states feuding over where the boundary would be.
Recently Puerto Rico had a non binding referendum on this very question. I don't know what was decided.
It's the Federal Government in the form of congress. The territory has to be in favor of statehood.
The three goals were to find a north west water passage from north America to Asia, exploit nearby fishing water and develop a fur trade, and they wanted to convert Canadian Indians to roman catholicism.