I have a feeling suddenly there would be a massive number of illegals that get reported to ice, or end up out of a job/don't have an incentive to come in the first place.
And a massive price hike for most of your goods, without the income spike to keep up with it.
Just stop the programs. But the fact that they don't, and won't really shows what this is all about. It's the money. That's what keeps it alive. They want their slave labor, they don't care about the average american citizen.
The average American would shut down their business and/or be unable to afford groceries without illegal immigration driving down the costs of manual labor.
I personally think that most Americans would be perfectly fine if they knew that illegal immigrants aren't "taking their tax dollars", i.e. just make illegal immigrants ineligible to receive access to citizen social programs, healthcare etc until their immigrant status is resolved (i.e. if they gain asylum or whatever other process there is). Or simply show people how much they would pay for near-everything without illegal immigration to drive wage labor down.
Every time you hear "illegal immigration", you should realistically think of jobs that give the government tax revenue that wouldn't otherwise exist. The government considers that reasonably free money, without needing to provide much in terms of services (and at the end of the day they can just claim "immigration laws" and kick them out, like Trump is doing).
EDIT: Here:
This is from the document:
"
The Cost of Illegal Immigration to Taxpayers"
As you can see, all the whining is about the (potential) healthcare they may receive in the future, and the current programs their *US-born children* qualify for. Which sorry, but that's also myopic and retarded unless someone believes that their US-born children will never ever contribute to taxes when they grow up that more than covers for the 0.1% of the federal budget that goes to their education. Just saying.
Edit 2 because fuck it:
I'm not against the concept of kicking out illegal immigrants and keeping them out. I just think that it means 2 things in the short-to-medium term:
1) significantly cutting down welfare/social security/medicare/medicaid programs, as the lack of (current and future) revenue from taxing illegal immigrants or their US-born children will bankrupt those programs faster.
2) as mentioned, higher costs for a lot of shit
Now, without powerlevelling too much, I make enough money to never realistically need #1, and already pay retarded prices for groceries etc, so this is me saying things from a very comfortable position. I think that if someone was to break this down for the (usually subsidized, usually poor, usually below-average-intelligence) voter, they might not take to it so kindly.