From my perspective, the deportation statement is one piece among others which establishes this kid has an established pattern of troubling behavior far more serious than being “one-off” as some posters here have argued.
Moreover, minimizing it as school drama or saying victims should ignore it effectively sends the troubling message that the school and larger society condones and even approves of his troubling behavior in ways very much like how the educrats and parents of the bullies at my middle school effectively condoned the bullies’ bad violent behavior by turning the onus on the bullied by saying we need to be more understanding as they are “misunderstood”.
That is…until their feeling they’ve gotten away with prior violent bad behavior encouraged them to do more of the same until the educrats/parents could no longer protect them from negative consequences from the society at large and law enforcement. Some will be continuing to serve their prison sentences for another 15-20 years.