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May 4, 2010

New York Governor Unveils Plan To Help Immigrants Facing Deportation
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In other immigration news, New York Gov. David Paterson has announced a
new effort to help prevent longtime legal immigrants from being deported
for old or minor criminal convictions. Paterson plans to create a
five-member Special Immigration Board of Pardons to review cases such as
Qing Hong Wu who was recently profiled in the New York TImes. Wu is a
29-year-old information technology executive who has been threatened
with deportation because he participated in a series of muggings as a
15-year-old. He had not lived in his native China since he was 5.
Paterson said: “Some of our immigration laws, particularly with respect
to deportation, are embarrassingly and wrongly inflexible. In New York
we believe in renewal. In New York, we believe in rehabilitation.”



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