“We won’t have to deport them. Just make the fine for hiring them so severe that no one will hire them. Also, cut off welfare, food stamps, and all other government benefits and they will go home.”
The cost of doing that is prohibitive. Cheaper to offer every family $3,000 and their choice of a bus or plane ticket. They will all be gone within 6 months. If you would rather stay, you must have an American business sponsor you and you had to be working for that business for more than a year. They can pay the $3,000 to the government for each year the illegal “AND” family was in country.
Okay, how do we verify how many years they have been in the country illegally? Allowing illegals to stay with only a fine only encourages more illegal immigration.
Another Operation Wetback, though, would also require the abolition of a little-known but byzantine and powerful agency within the Department of Justice formally termed the Executive Office for Immigration Review and commonly referred to as the EOIR. The agency was created in 1983 through an internal DOJ reorganization, essentially establishing Immigration Courts independent of the INS.
Since the EOIR was created by an "internal DOJ reorganization" it can be just as easily abolished by a new Attorney General and/or Presidential Executive Order (EO). At that point, enforcing existing law will do the trick.