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Aaron Simowitz

The World

Immigrants facing harsh sentencing for minor infractions

Conflict & Justice

When Jerry Lemaine was told to plead guilty to possessing a misdemeanor amount of marijuana, he didn’t realize that it would result in his deportation to his family’s home country of Haiti. Why such harsh penalties on non-citizens for minor infractions?

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