I understand it though. There is a reason there are videos of non-ICE complaining of honking to alert illegal invaders of ICE when they drive by with Texas plates. That is where they are home based.

But Texas is huge and focusing on one or two smaller areas at places that are less easy to just pop back into than a border state might make people stay home from work to avoid getting caught at the same time they nab a sex offender if they raid an employer with a bunch of illegal employees, enough of that for a sustained couple of months might make them self deport and would certainly make employers less likely to hire nothing but illegals in the future, more than the crummy 2k fine or whatever it is at least.

Since we supposedly have had net negative migration despite the H1b hordes, it seems to be working.