So going back a few more years, if a 6 month old crawls or is carried across the border is he a “lawbreaker”? In your mind does the crawling demonstrate criminal intent? I don’t think the justice system has ever seen it that way. I think you will find very few cases in which children with ages in the single digits are convicted of crimes. Certainly not immigration law, not now or in previous administrations.
Look, there are sad stories all over the place. Yeah, I shot both my parents, but the court should have pity on me: I'm an orphan!
You cannot just obviate laws because someone has a sob story. Oh, you crossed the border when you were 5? I'm sorry to hear that. But here's the law, and this is why we're deporting you. Have a nice day.
We have a major illegal immigration problem in this country, and if we start thinking of reasons why this case, and this case, and this case are really "special" and can't be addressed by actual rule of law, then we have no hope of ever dealing with the problem.
Someday, people will get so soft of this topic that they might even allow illegal aliens to serve in the military!!
Oh ... wait a minute ...