[Nyororin]

I said that if they were simply overstaying a visa in an attempt to avoid going back to an unhappy life, I would feel differently.

It has been speculated that they spent an incredible amount of money (partially backed by interviews with the parents themselves) on obtaining passports, and falsifying their identification.

You can`t say that you are trying to escape poverty when evidence has been presented that you spent $30,000+ on the "escape". Saying they are simply trying to escape unhappiness and poverty... Well, that`s a hard pill for me to swallow at this point.

Sympathy for the girl, who is temporarily losing her parents? Yes. But sympathy for parents who made the choice to blatantly break the law when they apparently had the means to work toward a legal route? And then want to be made an exception, pushing their suffering daughter to beg on their behalf? To the point that it borders on straight out exploitation? And on top of that, a mother who slipped up in an early interview saying that she thought that "If we had a baby who was raised as Japanese only, they would let us stay, so we did."

Nope. Sorry.