Because regardless how you classify them, they are humans who deserve our empathy and compassion.

Because they are fellow human beings struggling. People migrating illegally don't do it for pleasure. They have usually run out of other solutions.

Can you imagine having to decide to do such a risky thing? They know they risk their life doing so. Which is on top of having to leave your family, friends and the place you probably love to eventually probably find a shitty job and having to be subjected to a lot of difficulties, administrative non-sense, and everything else.

Maybe the EU has its fair share of responsibility in the causes pushing people migrating "illegally" too.

Migrants are not the issue. The system that forces them to migrate is.

Sometimes I wonder what it is that enables some people to have empathy for strangers but others not. Is it mostly your upbringing? Genetics? Can people like you be fixed, or are you incorrigible?

It is German, Norway, Denmark, UK ... crime statistics.