Juan Crow Immigration Laws Mirror The Injustices Of U.S. Crime Laws Advocates Say
Born a mile south of the U.S.-Mexico border in a nunneryin Nogales, Sonora, Alex Murillo came to Phoenix in 1978 as a baby in his mother’s arms. But just after Christmas 2011, the U.S. Navy veteran was returned to Tijuana shackled at the wrists and ankles after serving 37 months for a cannabis bust. He thought that after he had done his time at California’s Lompoc Federal Correctional Institution, he would go home to his two sons and two daughters, ages 5 to 14....