Who said anything about a free ride?! If this law is passed, I fully expect Mahony to go to jail, and become a huge political PR nightmare for those like Tancredo.
Look--illegal immigrants are just that---CRIMINALS. They are stealing from poor American citizens and LEGAL immigrants with every day they spend here, and every action they take. THEY SHOULD ALL BE DEPORTED.
This is a completely separate category from a "guest worker program", which is a good thing. What you wetback lovers fail to realize is that by allowing these people to move here, you remove the incentive on the part of their home country governments to actually improve the situation THERE, causing even more pain and misery for the folks who can't or won't make the attempt to emigrate.
Like all good "liberal" actions, the "unintended consequences" are worse than the proposed action. THAT is why the Church is wrong on this issue.
You want to "love your neighbor"?? Deport all the illegals, then send them money to buy guns to fix the governments in their home countries.