Can Someone Be Deported For Stealing A Small $ Amount Of Merchandise?

Was leaving a Walmart super center yesterday afternoon and headed towards the exit. Heard a store worker yell “Hey! You didn’t pay for that stuff!” We turned around and it was an older man with 4 gallons of sweet tea in his basket. He had pushed his cart down past the cash registers and was walking out like he had paid for the stuff. Apparently they were watching him and stopped him. He was acting like he didn’t understand the employee but he stopped, I don’t know how many more were before that employee. He could get arrested for stealing $16 dollars worth of tea. We got the heck out of there and didn’t watch.

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Muthafukajones · 46-50, M

Petty theft may seem inconsequential but our society cannot exist without rules.

Imagine if people just randomly stole from everyone everywhere. Not big things but small things. How would stores function?

Imagine if people damaged things all the time without consequence. A fence, a door, a mailbox, your car, bike, furniture.

There must be rules and consequences for life to have order, security and even to some extent meaning.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Muthafukajones yeah businesses will eventually close shop. And I know two people, worked with both of them that got into an accident caused by illegals. This was over a decade ago and the police didn’t arrest either one despite having no liability insurance and one of them was drunk at the time. The drunk one caused another accident one week later at the very same apartment complex and this time the manager called the Sheriff dept. and they came out and arrested him. Both of the men that I worked with had to pay for the damages to their vehicles out of their own pockets.

Muthafukajones · 46-50, M

@cherokeepatti The irresponsibility of society grows by leaps and bounds. People who drink and drive without insurance. Yes if you don’t get in an accident and arrive home it’s not a problem. When you kill someone and injure them for life there is. No one accounts for irresponsible behaviour anymore. Breaking laws. Theft. Ignorance. Everything seems to go.