Sadly many (Not all) Churches (or more precisely Church Leaders) are akin to Political Parties when consideration of recruitment comes up. They will look the other way on illegalities as long as the parishioners pony up in the collection plate and keep bearing children to refresh their ranks.
Illegal immigrants are using churches, courts, or politcal figures to get what they want. The churches should encourage them to do the right thing if they were following scripture.
There were many “progressive students” in the 1960s, like hillary rodam clinton who placed themselves in various areas of our government, churches, charitable organizations and education and over the years gained the “top seats”. We’re now seeing our short sightedness in not stopping them in the 1960s. We see a horrible example of our short sightedness in the EPA. We’re spending ourselves into a hole, begging for energy from other countries while sitting on the world’s largest energy supplies, thanks to the EPA and our gutless elected representatives.