I think anyone deliberately violating our immigration laws is acting as a vigilante and should expect to be prosecuted.
See, answered it AGAIN.
You are skipping two steps ahead: the question pending is whether you think the Church helping someone regardless of their immigration status should be criminalized? I believe you want to answer this question "yes" but sense a trap or something which is why you want to assume something similar to HR 4437 is passed in the Senate, survives committee, and makes it into a law, and then answer THAT question. How about this - I will agree with you if the feds pass this, and Mahony violates said law, he should expect to go to jail. Does that help?