What support structure, exactly? As I've been pointing out, what supports illegals most is the fact that they're able to find employment in this country regardless of their citizenship status. Fines mean nothing to businesses if they're offset by the amount of money they can save by undercutting minimum wage. The penalty for CEOs/business owners needs to be jail time. Instead we've got one such offender sitting in the White House, and he insures that other crony capitalists can continue to hire illegals with impunity, so it's no wonder nothing actually gets fixed. Republican voters are entirely too focused on the illegal immigrants themselves, and not on the reasons why they're willing to risk immigrating illegally.
Support structure mentioned in OP's post. He is correct in stating that most of the current systems here in the USA allow people to claim benefits without having to show ID.
W.r.t. your concerns about employment - the laws are already in place to handle this (see: federal minimum wage). Employers are able to circumvent it in the case of illegal immigrants as they effectively become non-persons existing outside the law. I'm sure that no immigrants want to be working for below minimum wage, either. But because of the way the current system works, they have no legal protection or leverage otherwise, and are also scared to go the the authorities in case they are deported. So nothing is reported and things continue to slip under the radar.
Allowing any and all to enter the country freely - with full legal protections - would solve this problem.
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