The actions of parents can adversely affect their children, that’s not news. Perhaps the lack of foresight and concern for this obvious truism should bring the children to question the parents, asking why they would put their children into such a position.
No, it’s not fair to the children but the “unfairness” began with the parents making their children part of the illegality.
I was at an illegal immigrant counter protest and one supporter stated that how can you blame the kids, the parents just wanted a better life for their children. I responded by saying so why is that America’s problem, what the parents did to their own children, and couldn’t Bernie Madoff say the same thing about his crime “it was just for a better life for my children”. After huffing “but that’s different” they hustled off.