Illegal is Illegal Right?

So it's been forever-and-day since I've made a new post.  I'll be honest I just haven't had the burning desire to post something all controversial like, nor to post some blah-blah-blah random thing.  However, Lori, aka the dirty noodle, has bribed me, and nothing moves me to action quite like the all mighty dollar (or in this case the all might spare change in Lori's car Weasley).  So, for the question....

I've considered posting comparing homosexuals to child-molesters.  I also consider posting about fetal homicide and abortion.  In the end I decided those were posts for other days.  This post is going to be about 287G.  I'm not sure if that's a NC only name for it or not, but basically 287G is a program that the police use that involves holding illegal aliens in jail until INS comes to deport them.  In a nut shell how it works is when the police stop you for a ticket, or a crime, or something else where you broke the law, they check you immigration status.  If you aren't a legal resident they hold you in the jail to deport you.

When I first heard about this I thought it was great.  ILLEGAL aliens are breaking the law after all, so why not let the police enforce the LAW.  I had no idea that this would be controversial, but it's turned out to be quite controversial.  I just don't understand how people could argue with this program.  Here's arguments I've heard against it:

• It breaks up families.  This is a load of crap.  First, the law breaks up families all the time. There are tons of people in prison right now, but do we let out the murderers and rapists because having them incarcerated breaks up families?  Also, deporting an illegal alien doesn't break up a family - the rest of the family could choose to go back to their country if they wanted to.  I'm not saying families don't get broken up by this law, just that the law is not the proximate cause.
• People say it encourages racial profiling.  That's might be true, but where are all the illegal aliens coming from?  I don't know the percentages but if 10% of our Hispanic population is illegal, it's hardly unreasonable to check their immigration status when the police are already involved with them for having committed another crime.  However this could be addressed by having the police check the immigration status of EVERYONE, not just Hispanic people, if they are not already doing it.
  

I don't understand the liberal hippies that oppose this.  These people are breaking the law, hence them being ILLEGAL aliens.  What's the problem with LAW ENFORCEMENT ENFORCING the law!