Immigration
Dec. 30, 2008
Legal Immigrants Haunted by Old Convictions
Many legal immigrants have decades-old convictions that have landed them in federal detention centers facing deportation. Few of them have lawyers to argue their case, advocates said.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Vicente Villalobos can recall the morning of Oct. 5, 2007, with the kind of clarity that comes with fear. The 32-year-old green card holder lay asleep in the pre-dawn hours when federal immigration agents burst into his North Hollywood home, their guns drawn. "At first I thought it was a hostage situation," said Villalobos, recalling how his wife looked on as he was handcuffed...
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