Which brings me back to my post to you.
That sounds like a man that has not lived with, drank with, and worked with illegals. Have you ever frequented illegal bars with your illegal friends and seen what that culture is really like? It is deadly brutal, and knife based.
Crossing deserts to get past our laws, casually living in a world of forged documents and escaping detection by the tax system and policemen, lying to employers, that isn’t noble stuff, that is the lifestyle of the least noble.
You are talking about people with a very casual attitude about morality and decency and the laws.
Frequenting bars does not make you an authority on any thing.