Gov. Paterson has reminded us of what America stands for. Nice to hear this after the AZ law made us forget for a moment. - - Donna Poisl
EDITORIAL, NY TIMES.com
Gov. David Paterson of New York made a brave — and startling — move on Monday to create a board to consider pardons for immigrant New Yorkers who are on a fast-track to deportation because of old or minor criminal convictions. He said he wanted to inject fairness into an “embarrassingly and wrongly inflexible” system that expels immigrants without discretion, without considering the circumstances of a person’s life or family, or even holding hearings to consider the possibility that deportation might be unwise or unjust.
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