And if they are criminals, then become complicit in their criminality thus making the citizens criminals also ??? You see, this is what corrupts a nation as law breaking becomes the trend, and then the protecting of that law breaking becomes normalized in their thinking.
Or we can do what a sensible society does.
This law clearly doesn't work. We need to fix the law and come up with one that does.
That would be the sensible thing to do.
The thing is, we are all complicate in the need for undocumented labor. When we buy lettuce at the store because it's cheap, when we hire a truckload of Day Laborers at the Home Depot to finish that DIY project that turned out to be a lot harder than Chip and Joanna made it look on HGTV.
(Come to think of it, has anyone checked Joanna's papers?)
There's a whole lot of things we could do to fix this. National ID and E-Verify, a guest worker program for unskilled labor, and so on. INstead, we create this demand and get very upset about how it gets filled.