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Patterson Pardons Qing Hong Wu

Posted on March 8, 2010 by bigWOWO

Thanks, uRB4N, for this awesome update: Governor Patterson Pardons Qing Hong Wu.   We blogged this a few weeks ago.  Honestly, I thought that it might be a tough one, since Governor Patterson is facing all kinds of battles just to stay in power, and so I am very glad that he took the time to grant a pardon to a man who has turned his life around.

Thanks to everyone who wrote letters and signed the petition!

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Reformed Asian Immigrant Faces Deportation

Posted on February 20, 2010 by bigWOWO

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Saw this yesterday morning: Judge Keeps His Word to Immigrant Who Kept His.  This guy Qing Hong Wu confessed to a string of muggings when he was fifteen.  The judge told him to clean up his act.  Wu did, serving three years in the pen and eventually rising to become the vice president of a national company.  But when he applied for U.S. citizenship at the age of 27, and in doing so, ironically, he found out that he was deportable based on the crime he committed more than a decade earlier.

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Balloon Parents Expected to Plead Guilty

Posted on November 12, 2009 by bigWOWO

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We’ve been following (kinda) the Balloon Boy saga, and it looks like it’s about to wrap up.  Charges have been filed, and it is expected that the Heenes will plead guilty. 

We’d brought up the idea of Richard being a rice chaser and taking advantage of Mayumi’s supposed cultural subservience, but what is ironic in this situation is that her nationality has now come into play.  Mayumi is a citizen of Japan and could theoretically face deportation for her role in this crime:

The threat of deportation for Mayumi Heene was a factor in the plea deal negotiation, the attorney’s statement said.

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