According to the article, his green card was renewed. Some, such as for a spouse, go for 10 years at a time.
But I'm not cancelling out the possibility that his card wasn't expired considering the fact that the MSM is sympathetic in their reporting of incidents such as this.........They never reported why this guy came to the attention of ICE in the first place.
With that being said, if the following is true, then yes, he should have been deported since he was in violation of the terms of his initial green card.......
The second of those convictions was eventually expunged from his criminal record, his sister said, as part of a guilty plea through Michigan’s Holmes Youthful Trainee Act, a program intended to help young offenders avoid the stigma of a criminal conviction. But even though the crime was scrubbed off his public record, it can still be used against him for removal from the country, his sister said.