How Should We Handle Families When One Member Is Deported for Violence?

How Should We Handle Families When One Member Is Deported for Violence?

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A man in the U.S. illegally threw a Molotov cocktail at two Jewish men in Boulder, Colorado. It was a targeted act of hate—and it left people injured. Now, as he faces prison and likely deportation, new questions emerge: What happens to his family? Should they be deported too? Or allowed to stay?

Justice demands consequences. But what about innocent family members—especially if children are involved? How do we balance lawful enforcement with human dignity?

“The law cannot ignore crime—but grace doesn’t ignore people.”

Read the AP report on this troubling act and the fallout:

Should deportation extend to an offender’s family? Where should mercy and accountability meet?

Punish the guilty, not the innocent. That is the basis of the judicial system. He should be tried for his alleged crime. Why on Earth should his family be deported?