She was living a good life... with the exception of her past as a lawbreaker. Her argument is predicated on the notion that time heals all wounds. It would have been the right thing to deport her the first time she broke the law. Nothing has changed, except for the sob-story benefits that come along with having a family to leave behind. If she had cared about her family, she wouldn't have taken this risk to begin with.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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