I can understand how you would be confused after years of indoctrination in the failing liberal controlled public education system. So, I'll educate you. It's not the "flip side" of the same coin.
When you codependently enable illegal immigration what you are doing is injuring both your own nation and people but also ultimately the nations and peoples of the countries they come from.
Let's begin with the first part. As sociologists point out, members of a culture must conform to its norms for the culture to exist and function well. And the better those norms are, the greater they benefit society noting that ours have taken us much farther as a nation than theirs have taken the country's they seek escape from.
But in order for that to occur, they must be taught what those social norms and values are with the expectation that they will follow them and pass them on to their children. Otherwise, they act as leaven reducing the entire loaf so to speak. Sociological studies show that people internalize the norms and values (e.g. social contract) of a society to the degree that a society actively imparts them.
In a well-functioning society, people cooperate like a system of interconnected parts with a social conscience. We call this the "social contract." Though it is looking tattered these days after almost forty years of rising disparate groups negatively deviating from the social contract ripping it apart, America still has a social contract.
If internalization and socialization fail to produce a positive social conformity, some form of “social control” is eventually needed. Social control may take the form of ostracism, fines, punishments, and even imprisonment exactly what we've seen with increasing government authoritarianism as society has degraded over recent decades.
One of the primary drivers of that degradation are the millions of immigrants who simply bypassed the entire process created by our government and society to functionally enculturate them into our society. As a result, they retained the very norms rooted in the poor performing societies they were seeking to escape from and passed those on to their children. Even their loyalties today, in many cases, are not even to this country.
(Note that historically, America has referred to the United States of America with the term American often relating solely to the people, language, and culture found within the United States of America and that is how I am using the term).
And what has been the result? Millions upon millions of illegal immigrants have illegally entered the U.S. and propagated forming criminal gangs, degrading public education, straining social services and increasing government debt, displacing citizens from the labor market while degrading wages and benefits for those they didn't displace, filling up our jails and prisons, etc...
In large portions of the Southwest United States today, gone is the Americanism along with much of the American dream.
In their place are sprawling concrete urban barrios held by criminal gangs and a new La Raza racism which preaches a seditious policy of reconquesta based upon a false history and logic. That's a
colossal enculturation failure.
In the state I live in, our judicial and social safety nets have been stretched to the breaking point and our public education system, despite 40% of the entire state budget and the proceeds of the lottery being allocated to it, fell from first in the nation to third from the bottom and it was primarily because of two things: illegal immigration and progressive policy.
Today, large portions of the Southwest U.S. have been partially transformed into the dysfunctional places illegal immigrants escaped from rather than them being transformed into the America they entered... an America which was a great forward-thinking, homogenous, safe, and educationally challenging one to grow up in... even right in Los Angeles County in those days.
As Teddy Roosevelt once said:
"We should insist that if the immigrant who comes here does in good faith become an American and assimilates himself to us he shall be treated on an exact equality with every one else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birth-place or origin.
But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American.
There can be no divided allegiance here. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people."
-Teddy Roosevelt.
But just as tragic, by enabling illegal immigration, people like yourself have prevented the desperately needed reform from occurring in the nations they came from. That's part 2.
So, is this to say that you don't care how many illegal immigrants die as a result of us not taking them into the country? You just sound like the flip side where the same thing happens, just to another group of people. Are american lives more precious than other lives just because they're American? Sounds like that ol' America is the right arm of God logic to me, dawg.