What is an illegal?

It is a dehumanizing Kafkaesque term whose use professes ignorance. But pragmatically, do you think your comment helps convince anyone of your position?

I'm personally ambivalent on illegal immigration in the abstract. But I am of the opinion that even if reforming illegal immigration is someone's pet issue, there are still many reasons they should be opposing the current regime's approach that seemingly requires summarily deporting legal immigrants, unrestrained cruelty against fellow human beings, and now what is shaping up to look an awful lot like the premeditated murder of an American citizen and mother.

If you're going to pretend not to understand, you'll have to do a better job.

This administration seems to believe it's people who are not here as legal permanent residents or with valid visas.

...Who are not white.

In a hypothetical where both could be accomplished at the same time, equitably and humanely, most certainly yes.

Those qualifications are important, lest either issue just be used as a rallying cry to inflict cruelty, pretend token reforms, or otherwise do half the job. If you'd like to respond constructively, I can elaborate.

Also of course we live in the real world where we can't atomically commit to perform both. This makes heuristics highly important. And if this ongoing topic doesn't grate against your own large-context sense of what is more fundamental to the kernel of society, this particular incident should at least run afoul of a small-context concern of when a government is killing its own citizens.