Truancy court? Handcuffed & sent to county jail? What the heck is going on; it’s skipping school, not robbing banks. This level of angry vengeance, out of proportion to the “wrong” that’s committed, is crazy. How about detention, calling home etc…..it’s not a bloody crime to skip school.

Rule of law that can not be shrugged off or ignored. The law is on the books, for better or worse, and must be enforced no matter the circumstance. If a person is in the U.S. illegally, they must understand that deportation is alway a possibility. No, it was not bank robbrey which there is a law against, but a law had been broken by these teens by being here illegally. We can not pick and choose which laws to enforce and which to ignore because of personal situations.

Nice spin but that’s nowhere near the spin I played in the post. Even if their parents had “offenses” (which could be anything from jaywalking to drugs), that isn’t the point. The point is that these juveniles who did something well juvenile were treated as serious criminals, put through the system and the system did its work.