To be fair, that headline is supposed to be funny: it is the work of the humorous news aggregator and satire site “Fark,” which posts links to stories that can support snarky, sarcastic, vulgar or wise-ass headings. I don’t find that headline anything but obnoxious, however, especially since a large number of “Think of the children!” saps and pro-open borders activists will be shaking their heads sadly after reading it.

The linked story is by NBC News which sports the only slightly less obnoxious header, “U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents.”

A fair, un-biased headline would read, “Illegal immigrant couple deported, along with their children.” That’s what happened. The fact that one of those children has a medical condition is irrelevant. (That’s the girl above. I would think her blurry face problem is at least as serious as her brain tumor…). The implication that the child was the focus of the action rather than her parents is deliberately misleading (that’s deceit, by definition). And the parents aren’t “undocumented,” they were here illegally. The use of “undocumented” is always a tell: anyone who uses it it trying to glide over the illegal status of someone who has no ground to complain if they are sent back to their nation of origin.

Back when I was taking journalism classes, we were taught that the story’s first sentences gave the most important facts that a reader needed to know. Here’s the first sentence of the NBC story: “A family that was deported to Mexico hopes they can find a way to return to the U.S. and ensure their 10-year-old daughter, who is a U.S. citizen, can continue her brain cancer treatment.” What a justly deported family “hopes” is the basis of a serious news story?

I would like to see a different news story using this episode to explain why President Trump’s desire to get rid of birthright citizenship is laudable, constitutional long-shot though it is. Our current system allows alien illegal immigrants to come here, churn out children, and then cry “How dare you?” when they are brought to account for their actions. That is certainly the perspective of the NBC story. The last line of the story quotes the couple’s lawyer as saying that “other than lacking” valid immigration status in the U.S., the parents have no criminal history.” Oh! “Other than” that! Well, they might as well be model citizens, then!

The parents have a choice, presumably: they can take their children with them, or give them up permanently to citizen relatives or friends in the U.S. or the foster care system. Every aspect of their family’s current problems are the fault of the parents, but the news media and progressive shills for illegal immigration seek to use the episode to vilify U.S. authorities for enforcing the law.

Another disingenuous part of the NBC story is this:

The family’s ordeal began last month, when they were rushing from Rio Grande, where they lived, to Houston, where their daughter’s specialist doctors are based, for an emergency medical checkup. The parents had done the trip at least five other times in the past, passing through an immigration checkpoint every time without any issues, according to attorney Danny Woodward from the Texas Civil Rights Project, a legal advocacy and litigation organization representing the family. In previous occasions, the parents showed letters from their doctors and lawyers to the officers at the checkpoint to get through. But in early February, the letters weren’t enough. When they stopped at the checkpoint, they were arrested after the parents were unable to show legal immigration documentation. The mother, who spoke exclusively to NBC News, said she tried explaining her daughter’s circumstances to the officers, but “they weren’t interested in hearing that.”

The reason they had no “issues” passing back and forth over the border in the past is that the Biden administration decided not to enforce immigration laws. The tale of the illegal family with the sick child surfaces as it is revealed that tens of thousands of cases were reported as arrests when, in fact, the illegal aliens were just “processed and released into the American communities.” “We have uncovered that the previous administration… was cooking the books on ICE data,” acting ICE Director Todd Lyons Fox News. “They were purposely misleading the American people by categorizing individuals processed and released into the interior of the United States as ICE arrests.”

But if they went to a doctor to treat their children, it’s all good.

Back to Fark’s headline: If we list all of the potential consequences of “falling out of the wrong vagina,” and what ethical responsibility our nation has for remedying that, we will see the divide between what the advocates for the “E” in DEI believe is just and the contrary analysis of those who are unpersuaded by the social engineering agenda that put the “E” there.