The present immigrants coming into America instantly qualify for SOCIAL SAFETY NET SUPPORT that immigrants in the 1840s, 1880s, 1910s, to 1960s ... DID NOT GET WHEN THEY CAME TO AMERICA VIA ELLIS ISLAND.   "FOLKS", No one supported any of those OLD TIME IMMIGRANTS.  They had to support themselves.  
Today in 2016 Arizona due to no border, illegal imigrants enter America and cost legal, resident Arizona taxpaying citizens ... about $2,000,000,000 per year in free medical services, free school services, and free jail and prison stays.  That's $2 billion per year.  If John Kass of the Chicago Tribune would like to "LOVINGLY SEND $2 BILLION PER YEAR" for illegal Azirona  immigrants, then many people would better appreciate his opinion writing about current illegal immigration.