Don't fall for it. If YOU and your spouse got arrested your children don't get to go to jail with you. Illegal immigration is a crime anyway you cut it. These people aren't supposed to be here.
Speeding tickets are a crime too, but they don't take you to jail for it. You're over broad generalization doesn't take into account the type of crime.
Laws aren't necessarily good because they are laws. It used to be illegal to marry someone not of your own race.