Originally Posted by
Carp
You're completely missing the point. You are treating immigration as black and white and hiding behind an argument of "the law is the law." But you are perfectly willing to bend and condone other laws being broken. Everything isn't black and white, and this a clear case where clemency should have been applied. Again, he grew up as much American as me or you. Sending him some place he has never been to and left to his own devices is extremely cruel.
And the bolded part is irrelevant. Even bad people deserve basic human decency. And there are clear signs that suggests he likely had some mental issues, which would explain his erratic behavior.