Understand your view and generally agree. However, I suspect the author (with the careful assistance of the ACLU) selected this young man because of his military service to advance their larger agenda of amnesty.
If so I think they screwed up. This guy will have justification the others won’t. The contrast will be real, and the others much harder to ram through IMO.
I know the open borders people try anything and everything to cloud the issue, so I think your premise is reasoned.