Bank robbers, rapists, murderers and other lawbreakers, who happen to be parents, usually also commit their crimes without their children's knowledge or consent. Yet they are still separated from their children.
Besides, what's so cruel and horrible about making an illegal alien's children go back to the old country with him? As another Freeper once pointed out, when a member of the U.S. military is transferred from one location to another, his or her children have to move, also. This is often traumatic, as the children are torn from their school and their friends. The children didn't ask for their parent to go into the military. Yet nobody feels sorry for them.
I think a lot of people would make the point that illegal immigration isn’t as bad as rape or bank robbery. Crossing the border illegally isn’t as bad as those other crimes. However, the real problem is the magnitude. We have a 20 million person strong subculture that has nothing but contempt for our laws and their children no matter how long they have been here are loyal to their parents.
Re-read my first post. I’m talking only about adults who were brought here as kids without their knowledge or consent. If minors, then yes, they go back with the parents.
If they are productive adults who had no idea or clue or choice in being brought here as little kids, then deporting them would be the height of “zero tolerance” unthinking group punishment. Not to mention stupid from a societal perspective: we NEED more non-criminal non-leech members in our society.
As for the parents? GONE.