I actually agree on the self-deportation as well, but this won’t be accomplished just by “cutting off benefits,” but by active enforcement of the law. As in that thread I linked to, most illegals immediately self-deport once we begin actively booting them.
They hide in plain sight here because we LET them. If every action of their day required some proof of their legitimacy here, they’d get tired of it and go home.
No legal job, no employer willing to go to jail for them, no school for their kids, no drivers license, no SNAP, no WICS, no Section 8 , no nothing. Go the hell home, amigo.