This is the best plan I’ve seen. It was posted on FR about two weeks ago.
“Incentivize self deportation by cutting off benefits and offering a deal. Leave within one year and, barring no further crimes committed while you were here, you can reapply to come here legally with no penalty. You still have to get in the back of the line and go through the entire legal process that everyone else does, but your prior illegal entry will not be held against you.
“After one year is up, any one caught here illegally gets one year in jail followed by deportation, and is barred from re-entering for life. No visits to see family. No second chance to come here legally. Nothing.”
Why give them a year? How about 1 week?