I don’t ever call them ‘illegals’; that’s how others pejoratively refer to them, ergo I put in the quotation marks.
People on this problem-plagued planet are being perceived as not being of equal value or worth, when morally they all definitely should be.
Human beings can actually be seen and treated as though they are disposable and, by extension, their suffering and death are somehow less worthy of external concern, sometimes even by otherwise democratic and relatively civilized nations.
In other words, the worth of such life will be measured by its overabundance and/or the protracted conditions under which it suffers; and those people can eventually receive meagre column inches on the back page of the First World’s daily news. … It’s an immoral consideration of ‘quality of life’.