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

Like the day we get the bill for her medical treatment?

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.

The same church that is now looking for donations to pay for funeral expenses and to have the bodies shipped back to Brazil, which is now suddenly good enough for them to stay in again?

The comments of the surviving church members and their desire to have the victims buried in their native country reeks of people that are here not because of a love of the principles that make us the country we are but rather of the new breed of immigrant who uses us as a cash cow so they can load up before retiring back to the one place that really matters to them.

Yes the situation stinks. And yes we should vent our anger at our elected officials who have allowed our country to be overrun with illegals.

However, this poor teen is truly a victim in this case.

She just lost all of her immediate family and the people who made the decision to bring her her illegally are now dead.

There are certain cases, this being one of them, where we need to have some compassion.

Imagine if they hadn’t had been in America illegally they wouldn’t be dead now and they would all be safe in Brazil.

I don’t like the idea of supporting illegal behavior that results in more illegal behavior. The church helping her stay against federal laws is, IMHO, making the church a party to illegal behavior.

Send her back to her relatives in Brazil.

The same church that is now looking for donations to pay for funeral expenses and to have the bodies shipped back to Brazil,
which is now suddenly good enough for them to stay in again?
Right on - that was my take on it too. Like people who come here, then fly their home country's flag.

The comments of the surviving church members and their desire to have the victims buried in their native country reeks of people that are here not because of a love of the principles that make us the country we are but rather of the new breed of immigrant who uses us as a cash cow so they can load up before retiring back to the one place that really matters to them.

I'm a native and resident of Cobb county...where these folks were living...where their church is.

A church that like all the other churches around here, was there during the biblical flood of 2009, helping people out. Help they really couldn't afford to give, but did anyway.

Her family wants her parents buried back home in Brazil beside family....like we all would.

There is a time and place. You couldn't even wait for the family to be buried before piling up on this little girl. Her parents were trying to get her legal. They were a family that contributed way more than they took from the community.

Your comments just reek...period. Have a nice day.