News Parody Cambodian Immigrants Facing Deportation, Other Easter Leniency Action

Sacramento – A series of pardons and commutes issued by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday before the Easter holiday.

The governor has been criticizing the Trump administration's immigration policy, including condemning Venezuelan immigrants for deportation in El Salvador's highest security prison last month without proper procedures. Newsom's Sithy Bin pardon was a pledge by the Governor and his predecessor, Jerry Brown, to use their lenient power to help target deported immigrants.

Ben (Bin) is a former CRIP member of the Attitude Gang, who was convicted of shooting at the home of a hostile gang member during a barbecue and was injured by bystanders.

During his 15 years in prison, Ben became minister. His good conduct and efforts to recover himself and support other felons resulted in a decrease in sentences.

“In prison, Mr. Bin was never disciplined for misconduct,” Newsom wrote in his pardon order. “He has been involved in extensive self-service programming, maintained an excellent work history and received numerous acclaim from correctional staff for his positive transformation.”

According to the American Pirgin Liberties Union, Bin was released as immigration and customs enforcement and was released during the pandemic on the 19th and was detained at the Cape Verde Processing Center in Mesa. He was released in 2020 due to overcrowded and unsafe conditions.

According to the Signal Tribune, he was sent back to Cambodia for 60 days in his recent immigration appointment, a toddler country he left behind.

Bin and his supporters wrote to Newsom, asking for a pardon in hopes that he would stay in California.

The pardon restores some of the rights of former felons, such as the ability to serve on a jury or seek professional licensing. In limited circumstances, pardons can restore gun rights because those convicted of crimes involving dangerous weapons can also mitigate the sexual offenders being required to register.

According to the governor’s office, the governor believes that the efforts to litigate the crime, its actions, their own crime and its impact on the community since the crime is granted, the crime has had an impact on the victims of the crime and the community. Since taking office in 2019, Newsom has approved 224 pardons, 150 commutes and 42 re-votes.

The governor also offered a post-mortgage pardon to the Sgt. Richard Allen Penry, a veteran of the U.S. Army, winner of the Medal of Honor. Newsom announced that he worked on Veterans' Day in November on Veterans' Amnesty Day.

Penry is a native of Petaluma, and in 1971 President Nixon won the highest honor in the United States for “risk of his own life.” He returned home with PTSD, which he didn't understand at the time and began self-treatment with drugs.

According to a 1973 article by The New York Times, Penry was arrested two years after the Medal of Honor for publishing a copy of cocaine in the New York Times.

He died in 1994 with cancer that might be associated with agent orange exposure, 45, and local advocates have been working for years to relate service-related mental illnesses to his crimes.

Newsom received approval from the California Supreme Court to pardon Penry, a requirement for someone to have more than one felony conviction.

The Trash Can and Penry are one of 16 felons who received pardons and nine people received commutes.

Among the people who were receiving it was Refugio Castillo. In 1986, he and his accomplices kidnapped two North Hollywood men who owed them money and redeemed them. The hostages were taken prisoner and subsequently beaten when released.

According to a trial report by the Los Angeles Times, Peruvian nationals and their accomplices were considered international bandits and wanted on multiple continents, and the trial lasted for more than five months. At trial, agent. Atti. Kenneth A. Loveman said the kidnappers mistakenly believed the victims were wealthy drug dealers.

The four were convicted of two counts of kidnapping and robbery, and one count of kidnapping and extortion conspiracy. The fifth defendant was acquitted and another suspect was fatally shot by police. Castillo and three others were sentenced to life imprisonment.

Castillo, 78, has been imprisoned for 38 years. Newsom said Castillo's commitment to self-improvement in prison seems to be a good prospect for re-entering the community. The reversal will allow a national parole hearing to determine whether Castillo is suitable for release.

Times worker Phil Willon contributed to the report.