So you are going to decide who gets the $1,000 fine and who doesn't for breaking the same rule?  Why don't you just say anybody can come to the U.S. and break any law as long as they pay $1,000?


What other laws and what other people should you get to decide can be ignored with de minimus fines, just because you don't like the laws that everyone else has to follow?


Oh yeah, we didn't elect you King, we elected representatives that make the laws that 
we all have to follow.   There's lots of laws I don't like, but I don't get to give breaks to people with sob stories, esp. those whose problems are self-inflicted.

If you want to feel bad, feel bad for the kids that were adopted by someone who didn't think enough about them to jeopardize them this way.