Good idea.
I'll go one better: Bounties. Paid to Americans. In America. But make it $300 for a "nobody" and $2,000 for an SIA (after all, the cost of living is higher here...).
Just think... for around 12,000,000 ("official" legal alien #) x $300 (per each) = $6.6 billion we could solve the illegal alien problem within our borders.
That's chump change - not even a fraction of what it costs Kalifornia for their illegal alien welfare payments. As an added bonus, we could also solve a lot of our unemployment problems both by getting rid of our excess underground and untaxed "cheap" labor but by hiring Americans to do the roundup job.
Don't tell me it can't or won't be done. Bail bondsmen all around the country have just the certified guys on staff willing to make a lot of extra cash for themselves and their employers.
The problem with that idea is that even though the US now has ~19,330 ICE agents, every illegal alien who is not caught while border crossing gets significant background checks, to insure they do not have pending felony warrants, and a court hearing, which is resulting in a huge and aggravating backlog.
And the most irritating part of this is that for non-Mexicans, ICE uses a “catch and release” system, in which they let them go in the US, on their promise that they will eventually turn themselves in for a court hearing.
Okay, this is now, but it is the “system”. So before there can be an effective bounty system, the deportation system has to be significantly streamlined, or it is all for naught.
Arizona had a particularly effective technique for a while, and one that weirdly enough, *saved* money. If captured illegals would agree to voluntarily repatriate to Mexico, AZ would give them a free, one-way ticket to Mexico City. A single chartered 747 took care of a lot of problems.
While airline fare cost a quarter or less the price for keeping them locked up and having a court hearing, Mexico City is a long way from the border, so recidivism was particularly low.
So solutions are often counter-intuitive.