Shawn Sheikhan getting deported... (link)

[highsteptd]

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This is BS, no matter what the actual circumstances of the misdemeanor were. He was found guilty by the court, and he served time in jail and probation. THAT'S IT, it's over. You can't go arrest him over a decade later and say "oh wait, now we wanna deport you for that crime you were already punished for."

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This is what everyone is misunderstanding. The US has MANDATORY deportation laws for immigrants who have been convicted of crimes, even if they were non-violent (although "sexual battery" could be considered a violent crime). Immigrants have been deported for lesser crimes, like shoplifting.

Whether this legislation is right or not is a matter of opinion. But the US has every right, and duty, to enforce the legislation it passes. Just because Sheiky was arrested, convicted and put in jail doesn't shield him from the mandatory deportation laws.

Also, how are we so sure that it was "just" statutory rape? Even if it were, how would you feel if you were the father of a 15 year old daughter, and she had sex, consensual or unconsensual, with a man Sheiky's age?

And I agree with a previous poster, there are few things, if any, more disgusting IMO than child molestation.

Oh and BTW, IMO moral turpitude is usually things like forgery, fraud, embezzlement etc...