Why do you think that? It doesn't clash with equal protection.
I'm speaking on in terms of public relations only. In effect you'd be running against the Statue of Liberty...give me your tired, your poor...
I know, I know they were legal aliens but I'm speaking about how it would be spun in the media. We'd see one story after another about some poor "immigrant" (aka crimalien) who just came here to work to feed his hungry children, blah, blah, blah... big bad mean xenophobic conservatives...blah, blah, blah...