Immigrants are birds.....these are illegal aliens.
Two useful counterarguments here:
First, disruption to ones family is the natural consequence of breaking the law. If I am engaged in criminal fraud against the IRS to avoid paying my taxes, or if I am engaged in criminal insider trading, there is some chance that I will get sent to prison, and that my family will suffer as a result. That risk should not entitle me to break the law, and it should not encourage society from enforcing it.
Second, while the U.S. born children of illegal aliens are blameless, they are not entitled to benefit from their parents’ crimes. If a father steals a bicycle and gives it to his son, the son doesn’t get to keep the bicycle just because he will suffer when it is taken away.
Libs think of illegals as Ted Kennedy thought of wind power.. great idea, just not in his back yard.