Judge Keeps His Word to Immigrant Who Kept His

New York Times: The judge, who remembered the pitfalls of Little Italy in the 1950s, urged him to use his sentence — three to nine years in a reformatory — as a chance to turn his life around. "If you do that, I am here to stand behind you," the judge, Michael A. Corriero, promised. The youth, Qing Hong Wu, vowed to change. Mr. Wu kept his word. But almost 15 years after his crimes, by applying for citizenship, Mr. Wu, 29, came to the attention of immigration authorities in a parallel law enforcement system that makes no allowances for rehabilitation. He was abruptly locked up in November as a "criminal alien," subject to mandatory deportation to China — the nation he left at 5, when his family immigrated legally to the United States. Now Judge Corriero, 67, retired from the bench, is trying to keep his side of the bargain.