Illegals are a cash cow in my neck of the woods for local governments. Each week you look at the local paper and see illegals stopped for a minor traffic violation and are then found to have no license, no insurance, and most likely no title to the car they are driving. Then you see the fines usually 1k and up.
Local cops bringing in the cash just look for short people driving ratty old cars. They ignore the drug dealers driving MB’s and Hummers. Free enterprise at work, at least a kind of bastardized version.
The result was they were constantly having to “pay” attorneys to fight these in mass.....it drove them back to Philadelphia and out of the small city.