Forget the stupid deportation! That’s like looking for minnows in the middle of the ocean. Go after the employers. Any business or company employing illegal immigrants should be severely financially penalized.
I've been saying the above for years. Enforce e-verify and increase penalties for those employers who knowingly hire illegals. A big problem with e-verify is the phony I.D. industry. Not sure what the solution is other than more resources to infiltrate and break up those rings or a national I.D. card that I don't want.
For this to be effective, the process of prosecuting the employers will have to be extensively streamlined. Historically, it has taken years for a case against an employer to proceed from initial audit to court. One of the biggest roadblocks is to be found in the Immigration attorneys themselves. Some don’t want to go to court; others are obsessive about piling on evidence even if it takes years. One in the past even assigned an agent to do a financial audit of a company to determine how big a fine it could afford, and this was after a decision had been arrived at against the employer.