Originally Posted by
merlinextraligh
Context.
Deblasio said a non injury DUI is not a serious offense, in the context of what offenses are sufficiently serious that they should lead to deportation.
So, should we be deporting people, and severing families in the process, for someone who causes no injury and blows a .09?
Personally, I think that person deserves to be punished. I'm not so sure that person and his family, deserves to be punished to the extent of having their family torn apart, and being deported to a country, where he or she may never have lived except as a young child, and where he or she does not even speak the language.
"So, any serious and violent crime, we're going to work with them. Someone commits a minor offense, for example, right now, if you didn't have clear definitions like we have -- let's say someone had a small amount of marijuana -- let's say someone went through a stop sign -- they could be deported for that, and their family could be torn apart.
And you could have children left behind where the breadwinner in the family is sent back home to a home country. That's not good for anyone."
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-mr. bill