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So the sins of the parents should be paid for by the daughter?

I am sick of the illegal issue as anyone else, but you really thing deporting a girl who just lost her entire family, to a country she doesn’t know and knows no one in is somehow in the best interest of anyone?

I don’t think deporting this gal under these circumstances is going to deter or prevent anything, I really don’t think a rash of mexicans are going to flood across the border with their kids and commit suicide so their children can stay if this gal isn’t deported.

Now had they caught the parents, and deported them and the daughter together back to Brazil, I’d be okay with that, but in this situation, I don’t see deporting this girl as any sort of justice or anything else for that matter.

So the sins of the parents should be paid for by the daughter?

I don't really understand this argument. Let's try a different situation entirely where the parents are living criminals instead of dead ones.

Let's say the parents ran a clinic that defrauded the taxpayers out of millions of dollars per year in phony billing invoices. The daughter grows up in a life of luxury, is enrolled in the Sidwell Friends school and has every advantage one could wish for.

Suddenly her parents are arrested, thrown in jail, their assets siezed. Now penniless, she is thrown out of her fancy school and forced to live in a run-down part of town with relatives. Is that girl not now paying for the sins of the parents? Do you think we should pay to keep her in Sidwell Friends because, after all, she is just an innocent victim?