Friday, March 05, 2010

Deportations to tear apart S.F. family

What started as boys playing rough with each other, has ended with him, his mother and brother being deported. It seems that common sense is missing in some of these decisions. - - Donna Poisl

by Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO -- Immigrants' rights advocates brought forth a family of five Monday to illustrate what they called the human consequences of San Francisco's deportation crackdown: a Muni driver, his Australian wife and three children soon to be separated because a 13-year-old boy punched a schoolmate and stole 46 cents.

"I feel like they've taken my right to have a family," Charles Washington, 42, said at a news conference in the San Francisco office of the Asian Law Caucus.
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