We are not prepared to consider special category status for certain groups of people serving sentences for crime. Crime is crime is crime, it is not political
Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers. And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum. That's the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.