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NY Gov Paterson creates special pardon panel for legal immigrants

By Douglas A. Berman

Some helpful readers alerted me to this fascinating news out of New York's Governor's Office, as here reported by the New York Times: In a major rebuke of federal immigration policy, Gov. David A. Paterson announced on Monday that he would create a special pardon panel to review cases involving legal immigrants who are at risk of deportation for minor or old convictions. Mr. Paterson?s move will give many immigrants facing deportation renewed hope and places the governor into the middle of the country?s immigration debate. The announcement comes as the federal government has taken an increasingly hard line in its interpretation of existing immigration law, leaving a growing number of legal immigrants who have criminal records facing deportation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 03, 2010 (boomark / email).