I doubt this. If these two had been deported, why wouldn't their children have gone with them?
Another artefact of the egregious 1965 immigration act. We no longer place any value on immigrants that are good for our society, instead we value "family reunification." With those four kids, they have a toehold in the US that they can now use for chain migration that will continue until all the 4th cousins are in the USA. (Actually, it can continue indefinitely, because the cousins have cousins, and of course the family must be together).
That act must go. But the only man talking sense about it in the whole congress is fearless Tom Tancredo of Colorado (a state that has been particularly hard hit by immigration-related crime and idleness).
But, I hear you ask, if the family can now be reunited on a reunification visa, why don't they just do that? Well you see, that will require them to do something they haven't been doing, and don't intend to do, and no doubt raise their conveniently-American whelps not to do: obey the law. Why, visas require paperwork, and waiting, and all kinds of unpleasant things.
Why should they get a visa now when they didn't before? Why, that is just unfair and racist to expect them to start obeying the law. Law is a gringo construct, they don't have any in Mexico, so why should they recognise any here?
The worst part of this whole thing is the message it sends to Americans of Mexican descent whose ancestors came here legally and who have worked productively. It tells them: You're a chump.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F