Emerson Colindres had no criminal record and was attending appointment with ICE when detained
A teenage student and soccer stand-out was arrested by immigration authorities four days after his high school graduation ceremony in Ohio earlier this month, and deported to Honduras this week, his family has said.
Emerson Colindres, 19, had no criminal record and was attending a regularly scheduled appointment with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Cincinnati when he was detained on 4 June, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
His parents told the newspaper he was deported on Wednesday to a country he has not lived in since he was 8 years old.
“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.