@Middle Man probably missed this paragraph from an earlier story about Ortiz.

"In Hawaii Ortiz, 43, won a reprieve from deportation in 2014 and was seeking legal status on the basis that his wife and children are U.S. citizens when the government 'without any explanation' ordered him in March to report for removal the next month, according to Reinhardt."

The fact is, there is no path to citizenship for people like Ortiz.  As the judge pointed out, Ortiz is a "good hombre", just the kind of person the immigration laws are designed to let in.  Deporting him now doesn't treat the problem the immigration law was designed to fix.

Does the mean spirit run so deep that we would break up his family for no good reason?  Do we want his children to grow up without their father?