No one on welfare would take a $10/hr job, they would lose over 2/3 of their income!
Until we get rid of the welfare state and fix some other internal problems, we're going to have this illegal immigration problem. A lot of people want the illegals out, but are they willing to also willing to go back to a freer society where the federal government takes care of only what the constitution says it is to take care of? I somehow doubt that a majority of Americans would get behind returning to constitutional governance. They'd have to give up their favorite pet gov. handout. Americans are fat, lazy, immoral, stupid, yet mostly content and happy house slaves. The republic has been dead a while. The empire is being given away by calculating politicians.