“If undocumented immigrants faced jail time, however, he said many would leave of their own accord.”
That’s a waist of time and money. Just make it a class A
felony to hire a wetback. Confiscate everything the criminal
employer owns as ill gotten gains and then incarcerate them
for no less than 10 years. Then put them on a system like
the sex crime criminals get where they have to register
and report to the state their whereabouts.
Those two things shouldn’t be mutually exclusive.