Plea to Obama Led to an Immigrant’s Arrest - By Nina Bernstein (The New York Times)

Last January, Caroline Jamieson wrote to President Obama describing the impasse that confronted her husband, Hervé Fonkou Takoulo, a citizen of Cameroon with an outstanding deportation order from a failed bid for asylum. The response came on June 3, when two immigration agents stopped Mr. Takoulo in front of the couple’s East Village apartment building, handcuffed him, and sent to an immigration jail in New Jersey for deportation ... read more