The “self-deport” strategy seems the simplest, and least messy — especially if you were to also prohibit anyone from employing illegal immigrants. However, what would the courts do? Could the courts, in effect, order the continuation of welfare payments, etc.?
The courts have to apply the law. If the states and federal government legislate that only legal citizens can receive welfare...
This is the right approach.
Simplest, maybe- but considering the fact that car theft, burglary, armed robbery, dealing dope, & prostitution are also means they use to support themselves, aggressive deportation is probably the most efficient way to clear them out.
Not to mention staged auto accidents and slip & falls.
I don’t know about other border states, but it will not be easy to convince farmers, ranchers, & others to give up their WBs- their workmen or their maids. Old habits die hard.
Our representatives rolled over more than 40 years ago & took a quantum dive worse in the 1980s. Getting it sorted out is going to be messy & possibly bloody, too. Inaction has consequences.