We have always punished children for the criminal acts of their parents. Even non payment of bills and repossession punishes children for the wrongdoing of their parents. Try using a child as an excuse to keep your car from being repossessed.
What is better for our country as a whole would be to nicely and humanely deport these people.
Does that make it RIGHT?
There is a significant difference between your examples and the OP's. That difference is that the OP DIRECTLY targets children. Do you see that? Are you ok with that?
And..frankly, if you are a parent...how does that resonate with you?
Start out with, because of Plyler v. Doe, the children of illegals will be able to continue to suck off our system. Now that that is out of the way.
There isn't a law applied to a parent that does not impact children. When mommy and daddy are dragged out of the house in the middle of the night it severely punishes the children who are then hauled off to foster care. So robbery, murder, drug dealing and human sex trafficking targets children.
Failure to pay rent targets children who had a home, then the bad marshalls came and threw all their stuff out in the street.
That's why there are parents who are supposed to conduct their lives to not break laws which would target children. I'm okay with that. If these parents cared, they would be making their homeland a better place, not trying to steal someone else's.