For decades, this has been an issue both sides of the aisle have kept alive to use as a political football because it keeps the country divided. Now that people are seeing personally/first hand how this affects their own lives by increased costs and/or decreased availability of goods produced or harvested by immigrants, the light bulb is finally coming on. It is easily solved by creating a worker visa.
Instead, we now have a national police force and a newly expanded prison business. The ICE budget is more heavily funded than most militaries worldwide.
https://www.newsweek.com/immigration-ice-bill-trump-2093456
The private prison business, particularly in immigration detention, has seen significant growth in recent years.
So sayeth Grok.