One thing that will need to be addressed is businesses who employ illegals.
What we’ve seen is Jose Wetback Roofing opens up with illegal alien labor (Jose probably came here illegally too, but was granted citizenship back when Reagan was President), so in order to stay in business Joe White Guy Roofing follows suit. You have to make sure that Jose has to get rid of his illegal workforce so he doesn’t cause the demise of his “American” competitors. The playing field needs to be as flat as a pool table and anyone trying to skirt the law going forward should be asking for his business to be closed down and some jail time to boot.
YES! I have said for years that if the penalties for businesses who knowingly hire illegals (or cheat on I-9 forms) were increased, along with more raids, the illegals would self-deport. Few jobs - fewer illegals. That has always been number 2 on my list, just after a California double-fence barrier that has worked so well. Duncan Hunter made that happen, and that is why illegal crossings went out to Arizona and created the Minutemen effort.
Texas is a little more complicated, but a wall can be built there also. As I've said many times, the wall does not have to be along the entire southern border. It needs only to be built where there are staging areas for the coyotes/illegals.
There are vast stretches of desert along the border in AZ and NM that are impossible to cross without military type logistics. Those areas also have few towns for the illegals to further transit. I know, because I drove the distance on I-8 from San Diego to Phoenix on my way to Tombstone to join the Minutemen.
Also, I hope President Trump doesn't delay the wall while trying to make Mexico pay for it. IIRC, the funds by Congress has never been rescinded, but the the law to build was by a Democrat congress.
President-elect Trump, Please look at the California double fence with Border Patrol patrolling the interior road and you will see how well it has worked. It cut illegal entries in California by some 95%. Please have a sit-down with retired Rep. Duncan L. Hunter or his son Rep. Duncan D. Hunter