Judge holds fate of gang member-turned scholar
"Obed will face an immigration judge who will decide whether he should be deported to Mexico, the country he left as a baby, for shooting his rival, a crime he committed when he was a teenager.
Obed is a legal U.S. resident. But even a green card holder can be expelled from the U.S. for a crime committed a decade or two or three earlier.
It's one of the many ironies of Obed's life that the 1998 crime for which he may be forced to leave the United States also marks the beginning of his transformation from gang member to English scholar."
HECTOR TOBAR in the Los Angeles Times.