RC, you did not really address the substance of my comment.  How is it fair, just, or charitable to deport a person, who, through no fault of their own, was brought to this country as a child - - and in this case, a small child.  "She just needs to apply" is, to me, startling in its callousness.  She knows no other country (and she is not from Mexico, FWIW).  Here she has children and a home.  What would she have in her native country, after two decades or more out of it?  Orientstar, feel free to jump in here, since you 'liked' RC's take on this.

I have to believe as a country and as Catholic Christians there has to be a better answer than "she can apply" to those who were brought here without a choice as children.