Earlier this month, Pres. Biden announced pardons for nearly 6,500 Americans convicted on federal marijuana possession charges — but advocates are saying undocumented immigrants deported on cannabis charges are unfairly excluded.
who were deported for federal marijuana possession between 2003 and 2020, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
A White House response to ABC News did not directly address their demands in the still unsent letter. "There's also these … legislatively made-up categories that immigration has separate from the criminal justice system that really limits the relief that people can get if they have criminal history," immigration attorney and Associate Director of Advocacy for the Southern Poverty Law Center Mich González told ABC News.
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