A court says the state legalization of marijuana doesn’t protect immigrants from deportation if they were convicted of pot crimes before the law was approved.
A federal appeals court has ruled that federal immigration law does not recognize California's decision to reclassify a valid conviction when it comes undocumented immigrants.
Claudia Prado, who is in Orange County jail facing deportation, got a state court to reduce her felony conviction to a misdemeanor under the new law. Prado then applied for political asylum, arguing that she should not be removed because she was longer guilty of a felony crime.
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