My daughter and I discussed that while we watched. Their "illegal" looked american, and spoke almost perfect english. He was only here to "see" his mother, who HAD to leave him along a couple years earlier because his FATHER left him and she needed to make money.
We only met his mother near the end of the show. We don't KNOW that she was an illegal immigrant or not, but we think she was, and she also spoke english, but not as well as the boy.
The boy said he learned english watching TV. That's funny because where I live I'm learning SPANISH watching TV and shopping at WalMart.
The poor illegals (the police called them "undocumented", which is nonsense because they were CLEARLY documented as I saw them on my screen, the were simply here illegally) were "slaves" on a farm, where the evil master would kill them if they tried to escape (wasn't this the plot to "Mr. Myjestic"?
In the end, it is suggested that all the poor illegals will be given amnesty, money is donated to provide for them, etc. etc..
So yes, it was all about how they were just doing the jobs we wouldn't do, and were really nice people who we should care about.
Clark's mother was going to turn the boy in, but Clark gave her a speech about how HE was an illegal immigrant. My daughter and I laughed about that one, pointing out that while he certainly SHOULD be deported, we'd have a problem because first, we don't have the technology to send him home, and second, his home was of course destroyed so there's no place to send him.
We decided that if Mexico was hit by an asteroid, we wouldn't want to force the refugees to go back.
My Name is Earl last night featured an illegal immigrant plot too, but at least Katarina is pretty.