AlQa'dah 12, 1435, Sep 7, 2014, SPA -- When Curtis Edmund first heard that a government official had come by his Bronx home looking for him, he couldn't figure out why. But he agreed to a meeting early this year, and when he arrived, he was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. Edmund, a longtime U.S. legal resident and native of Trinidad and Tobago, now faced deportation because of two misdemeanor theft convictions from the mid-2000s that had put him on immigration officials' radar. "I have no representation. I don't know nothing about immigration or immigration court. I wasn't expecting this," recounted Edmund, 47, a green card holder with permanent residency status since 1994, AP reported. He couldn't afford an attorney. But help came from a pilot program offering free legal representation for poor immigrant New Yorkers facing deportation at the federal immigration court in Manhattan. Now, Edmund has been released on bail and is fighting removal. -- SPA 23:31 LOCAL TIME 20:31 GMT تغريد
