From WSJopinion: Lawyers ask judges to alter their clients’ criminal records, even after the fact, to spare them from deportation, writes Lew Jan Olowski
Federal law mandates deportation of aliens who are convicted of “aggravated felonies”—defined to include certain state misdemeanors carrying a sentence of a year or longer—whether or not they are in the country legally. But some judges, prosecutors and legislators are playing games to get around this law.
Consider the case of Joseph Lloyd Thompson. A legal resident alien from Jamaica, Mr. Thompson was convicted in 2012 of “family violence battery” and sentenced to 12 months confinement. In 2017 the Department of Homeland...
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