The issue is rather thorny.
I see the border issue as a security matter. The security and soveriegnty of our borders is paramount in a post 9/11 world.
Those that assist illegal border crossers are "helping" them into a dark underworld ruled by drug gangs, low-wage slavers and transporter mobsters. The crossers are "helped" by being taught how to break our laws and live under the law. The crossers are "helped" into a life with no hope. Having babies in the US and getting welfare is the pinnacle of achievement for these "immigrants." Because they are illegal, they have no hope of the American Dream
Doesn't seem like help to me, at all.