Can’t help it, America has already conflated the two.
When so much of the American economy depends on illegal immigrants it is pretty obvious that enforcement of the law is dictated by money. Let me know when CEOs get jailed for hiring illegals.
Largely because America is no longer seen as a nation that welcomes “the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to be free, the wretched refuse from your shores…” We used to be an exceptional nation. We aren’t any longer.
No doubt you see that as a positive. If we are an honest people, we would return the statue of liberty.