There is a fairly simple thing that can be done to make it less profitable for people to hire illegals. Simply pass severe monetary penalties plus mandatory jail time for anyone hiring an illegal. The jail time would include the president and/or CEO of any company that hires them as well. It wouldn't take long for the jobs to dry up and many would just go home. Most company heads would simply not take the chance and those that did could be dealt with. Right now they get slapped with a small fine and scolded for being naughty. Two weeks per illegal to run consecutively and a fine of say 100 K to come out of their pockets and not payable from company money. White collar criminals are treated too nice and often have their monetary damages pulled from the company coffers. We have to stop treating corporations differently than individuals. They demand free speech and other rights given to individuals but they don't want to be treated that way when they break a law. Then all of a sudden the onus is on the corporation to put up the money and not the person making the decision to begin with.

If we would follow through with this, the problem of health care for them would be smaller and more manageable because there would be fewer here.

Plus it would answer the question of whether our food would cost more. Since much of it comes from other countries, I'm not sure.