Yes, only a truly heartless person would put the interests of law abiding citizens ahead of criminals. Or would put working class people ahead of fat cats who want to hire people “off the books” at slave wage rates. Or would want to protect people from drunk drivers. Or from identity theft. Or from crime.
Here’s a question I’ve been asking my liberal colleagues at work. Do American citizens have a right to enter any nation on earth we desire to enter, and to avail ourselves of jobs, benefits, and other goodies? They start stammering something about how “America is different” and we have always been a “nation of immigrants” so the rules that apply to other nations (like national boundaries) don’t apply here.
You might mention to your colleagues that, while we've always been a "nation of immigrants", we've previously been a "nation of legal immigrants". Ellis Island was never the equivalent of the current state of our borders.