While the President Trump wiretap story was sucking all the air out of the internet, this video began going viral.

It’s a cell phone video taken by a 13-year-old girl of her father being arrested by ICE agents.

https://youtu.be/xw-UmJt3S5w

It’s a tough video to watch. A child should not have to watch a beloved parent being handcuffed and placed under arrest. No one with any sort of empathy can avoid feeling compassion for the girl.

In an interview, little Fatima Avelica said, “My dad kept telling us to calm down, that everything would be O.K. I didn’t understand what was happening and how they could have known who he was.”

But am I heartless and wrong for not shedding tears over this?

Romulo Avelica-Gonzalez, a Mexican national, has been living in the United States for 25 years. He’s had several misdemeanor convictions: driving without a license, DUI, and receipt of stolen property. He ignored a 2014 deportation order (and who was President then, hmm?).

But during those 25 years, when his four daughters were born in the U.S., did Mr. Avelica make efforts to become a legal resident? Apparently not. And now his children are paying the price.

I wonder if those who are hand-wringing over this story are feeling the same compassion for a University of Missouri-Kansas City student who was recently raped in a dorm room by an illegal?

Wait, what?