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"New America Media" features the Immigrant Rights Clinic victory and quotes Professor Jayashri Srikantiah
"But people quickly learned that the Lopez case is one of many instances of people with a drug conviction turning their lives around and becoming law-abiding, but their lives are reduced to that one single conviction and they’re deported," Srikantiyah explains. "At least now there’s a chance for protection against that automatic punishment."