There's something SO "racially divisive" about insisting that the law be observed!
The problem with trying to use the rule of law when it applies to immigration is that one one ever decries the illegal Irish or Swedish nannies, and the ones who claim to want to see the rule of law upheld are the same ones who want to illegally deport U.S. adult citizens based upon their parentage rather than their birthplace.
Then there are the ones who use the rule of law as an excuse for their open hatred of people of a different race or culture, although these Buchanan-Democrat types are clearly in the minority.
And finally we are talking about a misdemeanor offense, and those who claim to want to uphold the rule of law have little problem remaining silent while others use bluster and bravado and call for capital punishment and summary executions for those committing misdemeanors.
The law was made for justice, not the other way around.