Were they refugees? (He was born in Somalia.)
Carrots and Sticks: The U.S. is great at giving individuals carrots. It needs to start giving individuals sticks. This teen's family should be stripped of their citizenship and sent back to Somalia. Reason: this kid probably learned at least some of his hatred for the U.S. at the dinner table.
Edit: I'm a foreigner myself in the U.S. myself. And I love the U.S.
> The U.S. granted Barre refugee status. He settled in Hillsboro, Oregon, where he worked 13 hours a day at an Intel assembly line. By 1993, he had saved enough money to bring his family to the U.S. “They were malnourished and suffering, but they were happy,” Barre later testified at his son’s trial. “We were grateful to America.”
-- Above quote is from the article
> This teen's family should be stripped of their citizenship and sent back to Somalia. Reason: this kid probably learned at least some of his hatred for the U.S. at the dinner table.
Yeah, and the families of felons should be put in prison too, since the felons probably learned their hatred for society and the law at the dinner table. /sarcasm
If I take a stranger in, I will throw him/her out if they do unacceptable things.
With family, I may not throw them out.
Refugees etc. are not born in the U.S. = strangers.
U.S. citizens born here = family.
I guess you could argue for a new half-citizen class for refugees, or that refugees shouldn't be granted citizenship, but those would be too late to affect how this family has a legal right to be treated.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_denaturalized_former_c...
But none of this is an argument for deporting or otherwise punishing the families of non-citizens who commit major crimes. How could you possibly justify that?
And yeah, let's definitely start stripping entire families of citizenship because of something a member of their family does, or for not being good enough country-lovers. What could possibly go wrong?
Parents have a responsibility to ensure that their kids know that blowing people up is not acceptable. I don't think he learned hate from them, but there is an element of neglect on their part.
Do I think he was entrapped? Yes. Did anyone physically force him to press the button? Not according to the article. So imo, he did earn the time, but that has nothing to do with his family or their citizenship.