Why is it a fukked up thing to do? I’m curious about your ethical argument here. If someone is genuinely fleeing circumstances that justify the risk, and they are confident the current administation will deny their request for asylum, then it could literally be a question of life and death. I certainly wouldn’t argue that’s the case for every person crossing the border, but I would argue that it’s the case for some positive number of people that do so. That possibility means you cant just make the blanket statement that it’s a fukked up thing to do, unless you want to argue that people trying to protect their kids is fukked up if they have to break the law to do so.
You assume the mother doesn’t give a fuk about the rules. That seems like quite a leap to me. For all you know, she was horribly ashamed of crossing illegally, but was fleeing some terrible situation that made it worth the risk/shame. Or maybe she doesn’t care about the rules. I just wouldn’t assume either way. I don’t think you’re a racist, but this is why many people think that immigration arguments are racist, because they hear people making blanket moral assumptions about immigrants that they don’t know anything about.
