I don't know a heck of lot more than what I've stated. About the only thing I've personally seen were the tears rolling down the cheeks of this good, hard working, law abiding (at least the ones you and I have to concern ourselves with), heartbroken husband as he received a small check from his church to go toward the expense of this Kafkaesque morass that he finds himself in.
But .... you may be right .... nothing to see here... move along. There'll be another Cuban kid or a mother shot by the ATF to momentarily catch our eye any minute. CRIMINALS ALL! You're clearly correct suze, nothing to see here, move along.
You know, you probably are just too personally involved in this to see it from the bigger perspective. If they broke the law, as sad as that may be, they broke the law. You don't get to break laws if you can just cry big enough tears later. I can feel sorry for them and still see why they may possibly have to leave the country.
But, as I said, I don't have enough information from what you have said and from what the article said to give a for sure opinion. And, I am still bothered by an article designed to play on my sympathy. I inherently don't trust them to give me information that the author thinks might not further his or her cause (which in this case seems to be to make the govenrment the bad guy and the immigrants the good ones).
Sorry if you that doesn't meet with your approval.
susie