What if they were white children?

One commenter, "Contango," seemed pretty secure telling Jesus Lara Lopez what he should do now. "Get a job in Mexico. Send money home."Another reader — "YesNoMaybeSo" — offered a different point-of-view."We've lost our humanity," the post states. "TractorDrivingSOB" posted a comment suggesting he knows how Lara Lopez can handle his problem. "Buy five more plane tickets, and you can stay together," he wrote."Linda," too, said the situation, from her perspective, was plain and simple."He's illegal. Period. End of story. Come here legally," she wrote. But there's nothing plain and simple about what Lara Lopez's American born children face in the months and years ahead if the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency does not back down from its plan to deport Lopez Lara next week (on Tuesday).He's lived in Willard for the last 16 years. He's filled out every form and applied for every work permit he's been asked to fill out since his legal status was revealed after a 2008 traffic stop. He's been under an order of supervision with a work permit through immigration services since 2011, requiring him to check in annually.He's always followed every order immigration officials gave him, and he will get on that plane next Tuesday as ordered, if he doesn't win a reprieve. But it will be the hardest thing he's ever had to do, he said, to leave his family.But President Donald Trump's executive order in January changed enforcement tactics drastically and made families like Lara Lopez's vulnerable. Trump's full enforcement order to ICE, to round up all undocumented residents is impacting thousands of families.The commenters who support that position use the same harsh rhetoric Trump did on the campaign trail."YesNoMaybeSo," although outnumbered, got it right: In some respects the 2016 election stripped us of our compassion for others. The angry backlash that's become so commonplace de-humanizes Lara Lopez, and dehumanizes his young children. "If he were caught sooner he wouldn't have been able to have those anchor babies," another reader, "Mark Bakewell," declared.But they're not things you should call "anchor babies."They're children and they have names.They're Americans and they have every same right you do, thanks to the happenstance that they, too, like you, were born here. Let the haters hate. But that's how it is, plain and simple. Go back to MexicoAmerican family: Lara Lopez and his wife Anahi have three sons, Eric, 14, Edwin, 11, Anuar, 9, and a daughter, Elsiy, 6, all born here, schooled here and raised here.Jesus Lopez Lara, a Willard man who faces deportation later this month under President Trump's stepped up immigration enforcement, with his wife Anahi, and their American-born children, from left to right, sons Eric, 14, Edwin, 11, Anuar, 9, and daughter Elsy, 6.