Posted on 01/18/2014 2:40:49 PM PST by rickmichaels
TORONTO — Media outlets are reporting Canadian pop star Justin Bieber could be deported from the U.S. if convicted of felony vandalism in connection with an alleged egg attack on a neighbour’s house — but are they getting the facts scrambled?
“Bieber could be sent packing to Canada if convicted of felony after vicious egg attack on neighbour’s house,” declared the UK’s Daily Mail.
“Justin Bieber’s Egg-Throwing Police Probe Dilemma: Possible Felony Conviction Could See Pop Star Deported Back to Canada!,” screamed RadarOnline.
“Justin Bieber bust could mean jail time, deportation if convicted,” Fox News reported.
Not so fast.
First, the 19-year-old Ontario-born singer hasn’t been charged in connection with the alleged egg attack that caused a reported $20,000 in damage.
Although police egg-secuted a search warrant on Bieber’s Calabasas mansion on Tuesday, L.A. County Sheriff’s Department Lt. David Thompson said the pop star was “not arrested nor exonerated.”
Secondly, while it’s true the penalty for felony vandalism — defined in California as vandalism causing more than $400 damage — is up to three years in prison, it is not likely cops will be carton him off to jail.
It is more likely Bieber, as a first-time offender, would simply be ordered to pay restitution and put on probation. In other words, a judge would omelette him go.
So what if, worst-case scenario, Bieber is charged, convicted and sentenced to time behind bars?
“It turns out he could be forced back to his chilly homeland,” Fox News reported. (Whoa! It’s not always chilly in Canada.)
It’s true that Bieber — who’s in the U.S. on a work visa — could be deported if convicted of a crime “of moral turpitude” within five years of admission to the U.S. if the government finds the crime involved “an element of intentional or reckless infliction of harm to persons or property.”
Deportations are a civil matter, though, and Bieber would be able to fight it. The government is unlikely to bother trying to send a world-famous pop star packing.
Besides, a Bieber deportation would evidently divide a nation:
I can think of a couple of worthwhile, even patriotic, uses for them.
I can think of a couple of worthwhile, even patriotic, uses for them.
“Carton him off to jail”?
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One of several egg-related puns the writer tried.
Not me. Saying M’Fer in front of a child is stooping to the level of the one doing wrong.
No way I’m comprising my principles to get down in the gutter.
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Very good. That is my take, as well.
Good idea, Canada will be responsible for him when they find him covered with his own puke laying in the gutter.
I don’t follow anything about Justin Bieber if I can help it. I seem to recall he was blasting the US health care system and saying how wonderful Canada’s system. YET, the extrememly wealthy boy chooses to live in this horrible oppressive country where any and all people who need medical care die and their corpses are stacked like cordwood on every street corner.
I think they can fry him.
Naw, dog! That's how he's extablishin' his street cred, yo.
"Fitty Cent ain't got NOTHIN on me! I got copped for throwin' eggs! Dig it!"
Only squares don't get what he was layin' down.
Mind you, if he had supported a conservative candidate, he’d be gone already. . .
Forget that noise. He's your penance for all those draft dodgers that came up here in the 60s.
Deportations are a civil matter, though, and Bieber would be able to fight it. The government is unlikely to bother trying to send a world-famous pop star mega-taxpayer packing.
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