Could there be a spiritual or lawful issue regarding "illegal" immigrants that gives them better standing than "citizens" at least until they register into the system?
I think it was Jim Gale of Food Forest Abundance who said something along the lines of "the legal system is the (attempted? Don't see how God's laws can ultimately be undone) undoing of God's laws". Not sure I'm capturing it exactly, but he seemed to be saying that God's law is one way and the "legal" system is against it.
So I'm starting to think that some people who I hear tell of not facing conflict with the feds are actually acting in some lawful manner unknown to those corralled in the "legal" system. Example: Farmer does not "register" or "license" or whatever and can operate lawfully and the feds leave him alone as he is "illegal" (lawful).