Neither are children allowed to benefit from crimes committed by their parents - not in any other aspect of law or society.
As one example, when parents steal because the family is poor, the kids don't get to keep the money. The parent goes to jail, the kids go to a relative or foster care.
Foster care, not jail. To deny them the option of seeking citizenship on the illegal entry is jail. Instead you hit them for what they did. They did not over stay a visa nor did they, as adults, enter illegally. So at most you can delay their option for citizenship but not deny.
and then deny them all the same
This made me LOL literally out loud at work.
Dependent children aren't adults and thus a crime committed as a child at the behest of an adult does not fall on the child.
Neither are children allowed to benefit from crimes committed by their parents - not in any other aspect of law or society.
As one example, when parents steal because the family is poor, the kids don't get to keep the money. The parent goes to jail, the kids go to a relative or foster care.
Foster care, not jail. To deny them the option of seeking citizenship on the illegal entry is jail. Instead you hit them for what they did. They did not over stay a visa nor did they, as adults, enter illegally. So at most you can delay their option for citizenship but not deny.