They have to pay either way.
Its a federal law and the feds are supposed to enforce it, not local taxpayers. It was Bush and the GOP who refused to hire more ICE agents, even though they doubled the number of border patrol agents. Instead, they pushed this off on the locals. Because the illegals congregate in certain places, these places have substantial costs to enforce federal law.
It was policy in the US since the great Irish immigration in the 19th century that local leos don't enforce immigration laws, because if they do, immigrants don't co-operate with the leos. No illegal will call the police to report a crime or voluntarily provide evidence if he is going to get deported for it.
It is also illegal for local leos to hold prisoners without charges, and commonly get sued if they do. So, if ICE wants one of these prisoners, they need to go pick them up, asap.
If this is what you and the GOP want to do, then you need to come up with some money to do it.
If King Donald the Great wants to deport all the illegals, he will need Congress to appropriate vast sums of money to do it.
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If this is what you and the GOP want to do, then you need to come up with some money to do it.
Self deportation... give em 90 days to get out on their own, they fail to leave open up a hunting season.