Jaskirat Singh Sidhu’s lawyer has said there are still numerous other legal procedures to come, and the deportation process could take months or years.

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    For most types of crimes, I’d agree. This one just doesn’t make sense though, there was no intention or malice behind it. It was an accident because he wasn’t paying enough attention, the particular intersection was shit for sightlines, and he lacked the education and experience to handle it.

    Other immigrants are not going to look at the deportation and go “I’m going to pay more attention while driving a semi-truck in rural areas” because of the deportation rather than the 8 years in jail and massive guilt of killing people.

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        1. Do trucks with PR cause more accidents than citizens? Do you have a source for your accusation here, or are you just making it up?

        2. I give a fuck. Why have immigrants at all if we aren’t benefitting from them. We picked him ahead of others for a reason, who’s to say the person we replace him with won’t be worse?

        It reminds me of something I learned. A good boss doesn’t fire someone for making an accidental costly mistake, the damage is done, you may as well keep the person who has learned the lesson really well because they’re less likely to do it again than a new person.

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        1. If they have a valid license, and they’re not self-employed, then it’s not exclusively their fault if they’re not qualified. They should not bear the brunt of the liability. The whole damn system failed. I mean, the trucking company that hired the guy was only fined a few thousamd bucks, and the government didn’t mandate any training, and nothing happened to them.

        2. That is not the real question. But you do bring up a good one: Why is this country’s population tending toward being more and more vindictive, rectionary assholes?

        3. “Criminal” is a loaded word. A great many people commit acts that violate the criminal code on the regular, and nothing happens to them. Suggesting that anyone that gets singled out for having done so doesn’t deserve to be in the country is an alarming position to take, and is not coming from a position of justice, but of malice.