Thank you, Enquirer staff, for your June 12 article on Emerson Colindres (“Emerson Colindres, detained soccer star, is scared for his future, fellow ICE inmates” by Victoria Moorwood and Aaron Valdez). What a sad story.
But, if I read the article right, his family applied for amnesty, got a hearing, was denied amnesty by an immigration judge, appealed that decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals, and a panel of circuit judges ruled that the family did not meet the standards to be granted amnesty. They were ordered back to Honduras.
Due process was followed. The courts ruled against them.
This is a sad story for the Colindres family. But it is a good story for America. We are governed by the rule of law. If we were governed by the rule of emotion and sympathies, partisanship and tyranny would rule.
Frank Lawrence, Norwood
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Sympathy doesn’t overrule the law in the Colindres family’s deportation case | Letter
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