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albaby,
Deportation is not a "penalty."
Deporting illegal aliens, even those who have not committed what you consider to be criminal behavior, is simply proper enforcement of immigration laws.
They are in the country without authorization. Therefore, they must leave. But that's not a "penalty" since they had no right or privilege to be in the country in the first place!
They are not being deprived of anything that they had a cognizable legal or equitable interest in.
If you're at the ATM machine, and it spits out $500 to you because it's broken, that's not your money. You have to take it into the bank and return it to the bank.
Were you "penalized" $500? No. It wasn't yours in the first place, but you still have a legal obligation to return it rather than to keep it.
My god some of you think-you-know-it-all leftists really have no common sense at all.
