That's certainly the easier and more politically viable solution, but I did preface that with "if we had a functional government." That's really important, because we believe in the rule of law and the equal application of the law. All people are subject to the same laws. You or I have to follow those laws and would be subject to the charges and trial. So, too, should they.
Principles are really important. This is why the hold kids ruthlessly accountable to the rules in baseball or gymnastics or whatever: to teach a lesson about equality. None of us is "privileged" to be given leniency. We all get the same justice. That's our value. That's a fundamental part of what our nation is.
As for actually deporting them, that gets tricky because of the citizenship question. You can't just deport citizens. You can't just strip them of their citizenship once given (international law gets entangling here).
These people should never have been brought here. Now that they are, they're a problem we're likely stuck with ad infinitum, same as Europe with its own subversives.
Just send them back to the shithole country most of them came from.
That's certainly the easier and more politically viable solution, but I did preface that with "if we had a functional government." That's really important, because we believe in the rule of law and the equal application of the law. All people are subject to the same laws. You or I have to follow those laws and would be subject to the charges and trial. So, too, should they.
Principles are really important. This is why the hold kids ruthlessly accountable to the rules in baseball or gymnastics or whatever: to teach a lesson about equality. None of us is "privileged" to be given leniency. We all get the same justice. That's our value. That's a fundamental part of what our nation is.
As for actually deporting them, that gets tricky because of the citizenship question. You can't just deport citizens. You can't just strip them of their citizenship once given (international law gets entangling here).
These people should never have been brought here. Now that they are, they're a problem we're likely stuck with ad infinitum, same as Europe with its own subversives.