Human-interest pieces like this make me think of the human-interest pieces not being written about the kids in other countries who grew up in poverty because their parents didn’t take them into the US illegally. I sympathize with the man this article is about and I think people in his situation should receive clemency. At the very least, the ones married to American citizens should have a straightforward path to legal residence for the sake of their American spouses. With that said, I don’t think the man this article is about deserves more sympathy than all the poor foreigners who wanted to come to the USA but didn’t because the didn’t receive legal permission.
Human-interest pieces like this make me think of the human-interest pieces not being written about the kids in other countries who grew up in poverty because their parents didn’t take them into the US illegally. I sympathize with the man this article is about and I think people in his situation should receive clemency. At the very least, the ones married to American citizens should have a straightforward path to legal residence for the sake of their American spouses. With that said, I don’t think the man this article is about deserves more sympathy than all the poor foreigners who wanted to come to the USA but didn’t because the didn’t receive legal permission.