Promise twice as much to naturalized citizens for turning in illegals with a bonus to fast-track green card holders. Watch what happens.
That’s an idea with some promise. Any kind of bounty program would have to be fine-tuned to avoid helping the Dems at the polls. The green card holder idea has promise. Heck, they could waive the ~$1000 naturalization fee for a green card holder who turns in at least one illegal alien. Fast-tracking it isn’t such a bad idea, either. The way I figure it, someone willing to turn in illegal aliens is likely to be GOP-leaning.
There’s also the risk of liberal organizations doing the immigration equivalent of SWAT-ting as a GOTV tactic. I think that you’d have to control for false leads by over-weighting them. For instance, in calculating reward amounts, one false lead should perhaps cancel out two positive ones. And anyone who exceeds a certain number of false leads should be banned from submitting further leads for some period of time, say 6 months to a year, before the counter resets.