tucson: He was at his Jr high school and had two joints in his backpack. After authorities were notified the boy and his entire family are being sent back to Mexico because they were in this country illegally. Some are happy to be rid of the illegals, but this seems like severe treatment and all the family must now be deported. I don't really know how to feel about this. Were the people generally law abiding? Were the parents employed and eligible for legal status? What are your thoughts and feelings?|||Just to let you know, there are some people with brain cells that actually can connect a thought or two here :) There are lots of cases lately like this that have led to rapid deportation. Usually what hits the news is parents in trouble, not kids. And what makes those cases heartbreaking is sometimes one or more members of the family ARE US citizens. Either they split up, and the kids are left alone in the US, or the cids are sent to a place they never knew for reasons they had nothing to do with. This is an extremely active and evolving area of law and policy in the US.|||I was under the impression that the school couldn't even ASK a kid what his legal status was. It must be the pot in his bag, a crime, that made his status fair game. The behavior of the parents (short circuiting the immigrations process) has fallout for the kids. Report Abuse |||I'm amazed at the hostility for "anchor babies" that many otherwise civil people feel. Many feel quite vulnerable and threatened. It might be that the illegal immigrant family is having the child just to take advantage, but that doesn't mean the child is less precious. Report Abuse |||GOOD ! "Were the people generally law abiding" No, they were here illegally, therefore everything they did here was illegal.|||Why is this any different? They were found out, & deported! That is the way it should happen! If they were in the process of becoming legal, I really don't think they would have just rounded them up & sent them packing! That at least shows intent. I think it is a good beginning...keep up the good work!|||Law abiding illegals? Isn't that an oxymoron? Law abiding illegal with an illegal drug in his back backpack? Again isn't that an oxymoron?|||Illegals should go back home. If they cant enter and do everything by the books thats the way it should be.|||If the kid and his sibling were, in fact, U.S citizens, then they could not have been sent back. That said, it doesn't really matter how law abiding they may have appeared, they were in the country illegally, and that, in itself, is a crime.