Get honest. Over half the total alien population is in one state alone - Kalifornia.
Why should people in 49 other states run a continuous subsidy for "cheap labor" for the grandees of Kalifornia wanting inexpensive gardeners to blow the leaves off their lawns, do low-skill jobs in their restaurants, and generally be a serf class throughout Southern Kalifornia's economy?
Indeed, the vast majority of all aliens in the U.S. live in just six states - Kalifornia, New York, Illinois, Texas, Florida, and New Jersey. Why should people of 44 other states - all in Red Nation - be taxed to run a continuous subsidy program so that the grandees of six states, all but one or two in Blue Nation, can have "cheap labor?"
Any "federal" (meaning Red Nation tax money) bailout for those fistful of states where this is a huge problem would remove any incentive for officials in those states to get serious about illegal immigration.
IMMIGRATION resource library: public-health facts, court decisions, local INS numbers!
They already do. Check out any local county health center, at least here in NC that is.