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Maybe if I put it in a way that didn't involve illegal immigrants you would be able to figure it out. Let's pretend that your lily-white parents whose relatives came over on the Mayflower raised you with a life of privilege (white privilege, of course). You live in a big home with servants, get a Lamborghini for your 16th birthday, are a charter member of Rich Kids on Instagram, etc. Then the Feds come one day and arrest your parents because every nickel they spent on you came as a result of smuggling in illegal aliens, sham marriages, Medicare fraud, etc. All the money is gone, the car is taken away and you get put into a lower middle class foster home where the parents don't give a toss about you and are only taking you in for the money.

Then some lily-white thieves activists start lobbying on your behalf. Little Napsie didn't do a thing. This is the only life Napsie has known since childhood. We think Napsie should get an apartment in Trump Tower, a Lamborghini, a nice allowance to maintain presence on the Rich Kids of Instagram and tuition to an Ivy League school. Napsie shouldn't be punished for the sins of the parents. But just to make it fair to the taxpayers footing the bill we will let Napsie keep all of the goodies but be monitored until after a PhD to make sure they are acting properly rich and privileged.

How do you think that would go over? After all, Napsie is just an innocent victim who has led a good life provided by parents who as it just so happens turned out to be crooks. Do you think Napsie would get a lot of sympathy? Does Napsie deserve special treatment? Why does substituting "American citizenship and getting to live in a country you never should have been in in the first place" for "lifestyles of the rich and the famous" deserve any more special treatment than my scenario?