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Article: One strike, you're out: in a watchful world after Sept. 11, 2001, misdemeanors committed years ago can trigger deportations for otherwise law-abiding immigrants.(INVESTIGATION)
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- The Chicago Reporter
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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Mario Pacheco's adolescence had its ups and downs. Pacheco, 23, admits he made the mistake four years ago of picking the wrong set of friends to hang out with. One of them, he said, was carrying marijuana and dropped it in Pacheco's car. The police discovered its residue during a traffic stop in February 2001, and Pacheco was charged with possession. He pleaded guilty and received one year of "supervision," a sentence considered lesser than probation.
Pacheco figured that was the end--a youthful transgression that he could put behind him.
But his past caught up with him last year, when he made a trip to Zacatecas, Mexico, where he was born. Upon ...