The actual reward for unauthorized immigration is jobs. If you want to stop unauthorized immigration, get the employers, particularly in industries like agriculture, construction, and hospitality, to do IRCA screening properly using the convenient E-Verify system.
Since college education in the US (even with in-state tuition and FA in many states) is expensive, it is not like that is a particularly attractive option compared to cheaper college education in countries of origin of many unauthorized immigrants. So that would not be the incentive.
When someone talks one way (complaining about unauthorized immigration, sometimes with racist dog whistles) while acting another (owning businesses that hire unauthorized immigrants and do not properly do IRCA checks or use E-Verify), what should people think?
@ucbalumnus - I’ve agreed with you previously that companies that hire illegals are a huge problem. The Chamber of Commerce lobbies extensively for big business to keep the cheap labor pipeline wide open for them. Big business doesn’t want to use e-verify because illegal immigrants work cheap and keep labor costs down. American workers demand higher wages and benefits like health care.
Well, it’s basically common sense that any collected taxpayer money that isn’t actually spent as budgeted is either stashed away for emergency use or spent in full (even if unnecessary) so that there’s no cuts the following fiscal year, but since Texas was the example posed prior to my comment, https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2019/rainy-day-fund/