[Oshkalaboomboom]

Would this be one of those exceptions Newt is willing to make for illegal activity? As tragic as the circumstances are they had no business being here in the first place. But that's not the girl's fault and Florida taxpayers will be stuck with her medical bills while everyone else figures out a solution to the moral dilemma.

[apillar]

I'll help pay for a medical flight back to their home country and transportation to hospital once they get there. But somehow, I'm guessing that's not the help the church wants...

[proudpapa]

have a little grace!

When such a tragedy occurs we should not be debating illegal immigration. We can save that for another day.

This poor girl didn’t make the decision to come to America. That decision was made for her when she was an infant. She just lost her entire family and right now needs the love and support of those she knows and trusts... specifically those in her church.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

This is a horrible situation for her, made worse by her parent’s disregard for the law. They were here legally... until they failed to renew their visas. They didn’t sneak across the border or engage in criminal behavior... but they broke the law by not being attentive to their ethical requirements.

I would hope that someone in the Church can apply to be this girl’s sponsor and that the State Department will allow her to stay in the country while the process takes place. But this is precisely why Churches must, must, MUST require that their people follow the law when it comes to immigration and visa issues.

[Iron Munro]

The government forced the repatriation of the Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, to his native country.

They can do the same for this poor soul.

[Psycho_Bunny]

“Bobby Curtis, another Restoration Church pastor, told the AJC that Lidiane is not a legal immigrant, and some church members fear she could be sent back to Brazil”

So he knew? A criminal conspirator is a pastor?

[org.whodat]

She has people she is related to in her home country send her and the others there.

[bramps]

This would actually be a good question to be asked at the next debate. And if you want to lose the election, you would say the girl should go back. Rat politicians that were elected by Americans created this situation. Newt's trying to be humane in his response to a very delicate issue. He would let her stay. Romney's previous answers would indicate she must go back. But he would squirm with his answer like the bowl of jello that he is, because he knows that it would cost him votes. And it should.

[WestwardHo]

I’m hating sob stories that are used to undermine our laws.
This church is participating in lawlessness. That’s despicable.
That law abiding, hard working citizens have to pay for it all is criminal.

[MEGoody]

Bobby Curtis, another Restoration Church pastor, told the AJC that Lidiane is not a legal immigrant, and some church members fear she could be sent back to Brazil, a country she doesn't remember.

So adopt her, Bobby. Otherwise, send her to live with relatives in Brazil.

My bet is Bobby will whine about how she is treated, but do nothing to try to adopt her.

[HamiltonJay]

So the sins of the parents should be paid for by the daughter?

I am sick of the illegal issue as anyone else, but you really thing deporting a girl who just lost her entire family, to a country she doesn’t know and knows no one in is somehow in the best interest of anyone?

I don’t think deporting this gal under these circumstances is going to deter or prevent anything, I really don’t think a rash of mexicans are going to flood across the border with their kids and commit suicide so their children can stay if this gal isn’t deported.

Now had they caught the parents, and deported them and the daughter together back to Brazil, I’d be okay with that, but in this situation, I don’t see deporting this girl as any sort of justice or anything else for that matter.