Justin Bieber News 2014: Singer Won't Be Deported for Smoking Marijuana

Could over a quarter million people really want pop star Justin Bieber to be deported? It appears so.

Nearly 274,000 petitioners signed the online petition filed on the White House's website under the topic "Believing in immigration reform." It needed at least 100,000 online signatures to receive a response. It easily got that.

"Sorry to disappoint, but we won't be commenting on this one. We'll leave it to others to comment on Mr. Bieber's case."

The petitioners asked that Bieber's green card be revoked and for him to be sent back to Canada, his native country. The petition was first filed in January after Bieber was arrested for drag racing exotic cars in Miami. Bieber is also a known marijuana smoker who parties heavily.

Obama met Bieber in 2011 when he performed during the Christmas in Washington TV special.

Roger Skrzynski, a 24-year-old from Riverview, Mich. is the creator of the petition. He said he got the idea after listening to radio coverage of Bieber's recent negative publicity and thought it would be funny to petition the White House for his deportation.

"I would tell him to get himself some help," Skryznski said. "He needs it, obviously, and he needs to realize he's negatively influencing the children who grew up listening to him."

Even the White House mixed a little humor into its reply to the online petition.

"Not only is it the right thing to do morally, it's the right thing for our country: Independent economists say immigration reform will grow our economy and shrink our deficits by almost $1 trillion in the next 20 years. For those of you counting at home, that's 12.5 billion concert tickets -- or 100 billion copies of Mr. Bieber's debut album," The White House response reads.

Although the petition didn't necessarily succeed, Skrzynski, and likely the thousands who have signed the petition, feel that celebrity behavior needs to be discussed.

"Just seeing the kids grow up, you see some starting to emulate the pop culture. And you see a real difference in the way they act compared to others," Skrzynski said.