My strongly-felt view is there is no policy that justifies the existence of explicitly second-class groups of citizen that the "superior" class can, with a phone call, summon the power of the state to ruin or permanently destroy, and that system should be very urgently and permanently dismantled

And I get why natural-born citizens don't really think about it, but that's what this system is and what it does.

I mean this is explicitly illiberal and disgusting

This seems self-evident beyond the need for justification to me, but there are others for whom the *opposite* is equally self evident, and I feel it comes down to incompatible first principles.

Huh, this is about immigration (and I agree) but it could be about pregnant people too. In some states.