Let me first make it absolutely clear I am not in favor of limitless immigration or open borders. Far from it.
However, I would argue that the illegal immigrant did not violate any of our Rights by crossing an agreed-upon line on a map. He or she did not rob from your paycheck, or steal your job, take your food or your doctor’s appointment.
Now, the United States government - the one that’s there to supposedly protect the Rights of American Citizens in @Tarowah ‘s estimation, does in fact rob from your paycheck and then give the proceeds from that theft to various people, good and bad, those with legal status and those without.
The United States government - through domestic and foreign policies outside its Constitutional authority- does cause jobs to disappear here and be transferred overseas.
The United States government, through environmental policy that is outside its Constitutional authority - takes food that could be eaten and instead subsidized its use in fuel - with more money stolen from your paycheck.
The United States government decided what kind of health insurance you are allowed to have, in many cases how much it would cost - and either subsidize others to get it with money the government robbed from you - or mandate your premiums higher to cover the spread.
In short - the migrant, illegal or otherwise, is not the culpable party when it comes to all the entitlement spending that they receive. The government, bureaucrats and politicians who created, sustain, and administer the programs are.
I think your anger, while justified, is misplaced.
That, sir, is American exceptionalism, and the very argument Jefferson made in 1826, on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. That the principles laid down at America's birth, however flawed in execution, would be a rebuke to reappearing tyranny.
Yes, they broke the law. But five of the first ten Amendments to the Constitution - fully half of the Bill of Rights, deals specifically with safeguarding the Rights of those accused of breaking the law, insulating them from government abuse of power rather than exposing them to greater hazard from it.
It is my opinion this was done deliberately and on purpose, as justifying the willful violation of any person's Rights has always led to that same justification being levied against everyone's Rights.
So are you arguing that all men may be equal, with the same God-given Rights, but that unless mortal men write down and vote on the right words, it is moral and just for governments to infringe or violate those Rights based on Citizenship?
You might change your tune when an illegal starts using your SS#.