Linden Corrica, an immigrant father and husband from Guyana living in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, pleaded guilty to selling ten dollars worth of marijuana in exchange for a 20-day sentence in September 2003. But after serving his time at NYC’s Rikers Island prison, he was transfered to an out-of-state federal detention facility to await deportation. Having exhausted all his appeals, he is now about to be deportedādespite a psychiatric evaluation of the emotional problems his seven-year-old daughter has suffered since his detention. Involuntary deportations have risen dramatically in recent years, and in 2003 totalled 183,151. (Newsday, March13)
