“How about everyone just stay home from work for a week..”
I don’t think that that suggestion will be acceptable to any illegals with jobs here.
A complete strike will send them home also. if nobody is buying, nobody is needed for work. there will be a few people work regardless. But not enough to keep things moving.
If 50 million people stayed home from work just one day, left the car in the garage, and stayed home the resulting example of what consumers can do will hit the government in the face hard.