After Governor’s Pardon, an Immigrant Is Sworn in as a Citizen

After a very long struggle and hard work by the judge and the governor, this man is a new American citizen. Congratulations. - - Donna Poisl

By NINA BERNSTEIN

It was his application for United States citizenship that derailed the American life of Qing Hong Wu, an information-technology executive who had risen from poverty and street crime in Chinatown. He had fulfilled the promise he made to the judge who sentenced him for teenage muggings, but immigration authorities jailed him for mandatory deportation to China, a country he had left at age 5.

It took a governor’s pardon to free him. And on Friday, with his mother at his side and the judge cheering him on, Mr. Wu, 29, was sworn in as a citizen with the approval of the same immigration authorities who had tried to expel him from the country.
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