[VOA]

First of all, as Christians, we are to care about the poor...

Seems like just most stories I read about "coyotes" says they usually
collect $1,500 to $2,000 per illegal immigrant transported.
And sometimes more.

If the illegals in the USA are poor...they got that way on their own.
By speculating with $1500 to $2000 to get to a country whose treasury
they might help drain of funds.

[Mr. Silverback]

Most poor people got that way through doing stupid things. After all, it's been documented by numerous studies that people who graduate from high school and wait until their 20s to marry and have children are very, very unlikely to ever live below the poverty line for any length of time. Yet Jesus did not say, "Only help the poor who didn't screw up" or "Only help the poor who are morally blameless."

Helping a poor person (even a criminal poor person) is not the same as excusing their behavior. It is a model of the grace God affords us while we are in the depths of the greatest possible spiritual poverty.