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Immigration crackdown on ‘bad hombres’ nets New Paltz man with 7-year-old misdemeanor pot conviction

Immigration crackdown on ‘bad hombres’ nets New Paltz man with 7-year-old misdemeanor pot conviction

Joel Guerrero of New Paltz isn’t the sort of guy who comes to mind when the president talks about deporting criminals. He has a 2010 misdemeanor conviction resulting from police finding a pot plant at his house while responding to a noise complaint, and he regularly checks in with immigration officials. But after years of strict deportation of felony offenders under the Obama administration, most of the remaining immigrants that could be deported have similarly non-threatening criminal records.