“Of course. If they didn’t want to be punished they shouldn’t have committed a crime”

vs

“But what if they didn’t know they were illegal? You know how tricky those people can be.”

A lot of true believer hogs will absolutely argue the latter, because they have been fundamentally miseducated and do not understand that the entire point of anti-immigrant terror in the US is about keeping a population of hyperexploited and precarious laborers for the ruling class to profit off of. Like they don't live in material reality, they've just been whipped into a rabid racist frenzy to serve as another cog in the exploitation and terror machine, and they've fully internalized the lies that brought them to that point and extrapolated them to their logical conclusion.

i can almost visualize bourgeois disdain face at the second question, like "jailed for that? i provide them with better future by letting them mow my lawns"