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US deports teen soccer star to Honduras days after his high school graduation
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2025
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The relevance is two-fold:
The American people were promised the deportation of dangerous criminals. Judging by the fact that this kid was busy working on his education and excelling in community sports tells us he likely wasn’t engaged in criminal activities, we know where he’s been. This highlights the failure of the mass immigration plan and how devastating it can be on the lives of innocent people.
With all that being said, why are tax dollars being wasted on this?
Howcome he is deported but his parents have not been? I mean they must be illegal to if they brought him here when he was 8.
I might surprise you but people don't vote for the law as written but indeed for plans and promises made by law makers.
I remember our last election. Most people dont even vote for the "plans and promises." They vote for the perceived "lesser evil." -It's incredibly irritating for those of us who care about policy.
People are bad at democracy; that doesn't surprise me. But that's irrelevant. Laws are important. Plans, promises and hopes -- are not.
The spirit of the law is a very real thing and is taken into account by judges all the time.
Regardless of what your legal education is, the fact is that a current batch of politicians were elected because they promised to tackle crime and illegal immigration, and if there's communities where home invasions, car jackings, burglaries are a somewhat regular occurrence then wasting state resources to hurriedly deport high school kids is stupid and wasteful.
"The law" is not some divinely inspired rules. It is what we use to affect outcomes we want. It is irrelevant in a discussion of right and wrong.
When it comes to a discussion over whether somebody ought or ought not be allowed to be in the country the person matters more than the law.
These people were doing no harm and were actively participating in their community. The law is wrong if it says to deport them.
I understand your position but it doesn't work this way anymore for a century or something. Somewhere after the Imperialistic War the borders were closed around the world and people were forced into obligatory citizenship.
Modern law demands permission to cross a border.
God you sound like a bad '80s sci-fi where a post-apocalyptic group of children worship "the laaaaaw" and talk about things being "foretold"...
The "law" does no such thing. It doesn't have wants or needs. It does not exist without humans since laws are written by humans and based on human morality. It does not exist to serve itself, it exists to serve society.
Deporting people who have been here for a friggin' decade, who are paying taxes, who are participating in society, and who have done no wrong, is wrong. I've never seen anybody defend that as being "the right thing to do" - typically they just talk about "the law" at that point.
It does not matter what the law says. If the law says they should be deported then the law is wrong and ought to be changed.