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Years later, victim of Dallas fake drug scandal comes home

Here's another strange, sad postscript to the Dallas fake drug scandal: Until recently, one of the innocent people set up by lying cops and informants couldn't get back into the United States after being deported because of the (false, overturned) drug conviction on his record. Reported the Dallas News ("Fake drug victim gets a fresh start," Jan. 4):As the immigration case before the U.S. Consulate in Juárez dragged on, so did despair, [Jaime] Chavez said. His wife struggled with house payments in McKinney, and eventually the bank foreclosed on the home. Chavez traveled back and forth to Juárez from his hometown in the Mexican state of Michoacán. "Juárez is horrible," he said, recounting the drug violence of warring cartels. "Every day they kill people there...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 05, 2010 (boomark / email).