>punish some (but not all) of the people it deemed to have done wrong, In other words it punished those that couldn't add something to the US -like engineers t

>punish some (but not all) of the people it deemed to have done wrong, In other words it punished those that couldn't add something to the US -like engineers that could build rockets for example. Basically what you are saying is crime has no upper limit of evil if the criminal is seen as better unpunished for the state than not. That's how a lot of Nazis and Japanese that did mass murder and human experiments became US citizen in good standing. To me giving them this out was more evil than the deeds they did.