> Systematically start cancelling all federal benefits. <
Excellent suggestion. And is the one offering illegals a free ride home. Perhaps add in a small sweetener, like maybe $200 cash. As you noted, that would be much cheaper than keeping them on the dole.
Starry-eyed liberals who favor unrestricted immigration just don’t get that it’s not 1910 anymore.
1910: Plenty of factory work for immigrants, and no welfare.
2024: No factory work for immigrants, and plenty of welfare.
Hell, I’d up the $200.
Take the money from the NGOs and federally subsidize bogus non-profits, which are nothing but do-nothing jobs for liberals. Tell non-profits/NGOs that 85% of the money has to go to the “cause”, whatever that my be, and they’d be forced to fire a chunk of all the do-gooder liberals. They’d collapse.