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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Why should people in his position be offered citizenship? Because they dodged the law long enough? No snark, honest question[/quote]

He didn't really "dodge the law". He was brought here when he was six months old. He had no choice in the matter. He found himself here without documentation, not because of his own actions, but as result of his parents' choices. He never lived in Iraq and didn't even speak Arabic. It was predictable -- indeed was predicted -- that he would not survive in a country where he had no friends or family, no money, little chance of getting a job, and no access to necessary medical care. In Iraq he was homeless, living on the street.

People like him who have known no other country deserve to stay here. Staying here without status makes no sense. A path to citizenship is the best of the poor options available. 
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or if you don’t want to give him citizenship you can give a status that acknowledges the reality of his situation - he has no other home and he is in danger (because of his health and religion) if he’s sent to iraq, where he has no ties and no means to survive. i’ve worked on immigration policy with the federal government - they can fix this. they decided not to. they sent a mentally ill, physically ill man to a country where he has no ties instead. [/quote]

Unfortunately, we don't have laws to involuntarily commit and treat the mentally ill in this country. A mentally ill non US national shouldn't be wandering around committing crimes since the 90's. That is very unfair to him (if he was mentally ill) and to American citizens who he may have frightened or whose rights he violated. It's a very strange situation to be deported to a basically unfamiliar country and I see how problematic that is--akin to dreamers. But again, Congress' inaction has contributed to a massive, multilayered problem for American citizens and bad consequences ultimately for him. My grandmother never attained citizenship and held her green card her entire life; had she broken the law, she could have been deported. We have laws, we follow them. If you don't like them - legislators need to change them.[/quote]

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