Balloon Boy’s Guilty Mom Won’t Be Deported, But Your Busboy Will

Richard and Mayumi Heene, who created a media hoax last month when they told the press that their son floated away in a giant balloon, plead guilty today to a felony charge of attempting to influence a public servant and a misdemeanor count of false reporting to authorities respectively, so that Mayumi won’t be deported. Really? These are the illegal aliens we want staying in the country? Meanwhile, the guy who picked your food today still has to fear for his place here. The Heenes will be sentenced on December 23.

Balloon boy parents face sentence in December [Reuters]