This "bleeding heart" article is a classic case of human irrationality and the desire to "have your cake and eat it too."
A. If our immigration laws are enforced and lawbreakers are sent home, of course there will be human sorrow, family disruptions, people uprooted, etc.
B. At the same time, the dangers of not enforcing our laws are obvious and the complaints about that are growing daily.
Sometimes the same people hold to both A and B: they complain about the hardships, but they want the laws enforced too.
Get real folks. You can't have both. Either enforce the laws and live with the hardships, or be "Mr. Nice Guy" and ignore the law.
The trouble with the latter approach is that its ultimate consequences will be far more tragic than today's sob stories.
"This 'bleeding heart" article points out that Pilot Program of the employee verification system doesn't work. If it doesn't work with a few thousand employers, what will happen when every employer must use it for new hires? Or when every employee must be verified?