Clarify.
Immigration law is clear. Persons have chosen to disregard the law. For whatever reason, their disregard should never lead me to ignore the same law nor the consequences of the failure to adhere to it.
Could it be, the attempt to initially avoid the consequences of "those families torn apart" is perhaps the reason those laws were established in the first place?
No action is without result - good or bad. No choice is without consequence - equally good or bad. Hence, I should not demand or expect you to see grey if I choose to blur the black and white of established law.