If the innocent go to prison, then God will repay. The innocent in Christ are more than willing to suffer indignity, because they know their justice will be 100-fold. The fact that this guy is trying to cash in while avoiding trouble is all the proof you need that he is a flim-flam.
My disagreement with your thinking is with the word right. No one has the right to disobey the law of the land. But a person can choose to obey or disobey. That choice is not a right. It is a personal decision. And yes, I do agree with you that a person disobeying the law will have to suffer the consequences.
The problem with our immigration laws is that the federal government chooses not to enforce its own laws. And the people paying the consequences are not the people breaking the law. The people paying the consequences are hard-working Americans who have to foot the bill for illegal aliens.