A short story about deportations and "violent criminals." Last year I represented a man in deportation proceedings who was brought to the country as a toddler. He had been in the country for so long he was able to get his green card through the amnesty program under Reagan. He was a poor Salvadoran immigrant and like many poor Salvadoran immigrants, he grew up in a neighborhood that was filled with gang members. One day, he and his friends get into a fight with some of the other kids on the block & someone throws a cinder block through a car window.

One of my DACA clients was erroneously arrested by the SFPD under suspicion of drunk driving. When he filed to renew his DACA, his fingerprints showed that he has an arrest for a DUI, which would make him ineligible. CIS issued an RFE asking him to “prove” that he had not been /1

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convicted of and/or committed a DUI. Although the SF DAs office neglected to file any charges they also refused to give him a letter stating that they would not file any charges because the charges were baseless. Although we submitted a statement from our client and his public /2