compassionate emergency health care is a good idea, it's not like they can go in and get a check up or a prescription for viagra for free or anything, but if a guy gets hit by a car or falls off of a scaffold while working in a construction job that the locals don't want, then you really should be doing what you can to help the guy out in case of the emergency
legal or illegal, it is all just arbitrary rules on the legislator's whim of the moment, the reality of enforcement or lack thereof is done on a more realistic basis based on the current societal climate and need for labor
