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Stop the Deportation of 50-Year Permanent Resident Mike Burrows
  1. Signatures
    1,100 out of 1,500
    Petitioning
    1. Sen. Barbara Boxer (+ 2 others)
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      • Sen. Barbara Boxer (CA)
      • Sen. Dianne Feinstein (CA)
      • Gov. Edmund Brown (CA)
  2. Created By
    Gabriela Garcia
    Miami, FL
About this Petition Petition Letter

Mike Burrows is as an American as any citizen. The 52-year-old legal permanent resident was a baseball player at Glendale High School and Glendale Community college, and a golden gloves boxer in his twenties. A professional musician who has worked in the automobile and advertising industries, he has worked ambitiously and paid taxes most of his adult life. He has a long family history in the United States, with U.S. citizen grandparents. His grandfather was a state senator in South Dakota. Burrows is a loving father, productive resident, and hard worker. He immigrated from Canada when he was just two years old.

But he has faced a 9-year battle against deportation because of an expunged misdemeanor charge over holding a stolen 8-track tape deck for a friend when he was a teenager. Because of the Illegal Immigration and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, he would face a lifetime ban from re-entry into the United States. He would most likely never see his elderly parents again, especially his mother who has Alzheimers and is too sick to travel.

Burrows faces a deportation mandate in the next few days. Having exhausted appeals, a pardon from California Governor Jerry Brown is the family's last hope. Here's what you can do:

1. Call Governor Jerry Brown at (916) 445-2841 and ask that he issue a pardon and halt the deportation of Mike Burrows.

2. Send a fax to the governor at (916) 445-4633 

3. Sign this petition asking the governor to step in and make sure Mike Burrows spends the holidays with his family in the only home he's ever known.

Recent Signatures

Pardon Mike Burrows (Case # 08-73883 #A013-016-711)

Greetings,

I am writing you to request an immediate pardon of Mike Burrows (Case # 08-73883 #A013-016-711), a 52-year-old legal permanent resident who faces deportation because of an expunged misdemeanor charge from 1978 over a stolen 8-track tape deck.

Burrows, who came to the United States when he was two years old, has two American citizen children, one who is under the age of 18. Because of the Illegal Immigration and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, he would face a lifetime ban from re-entry into the United States. He would most likely never see his elderly parents again, especially his mother who has Alzheimers and is too sick to travel.

Mike Burrows is as American as any citizen. He was a baseball player at Glendale High School and Glendale Community college, and a golden gloves boxer in his twenties. A professional musician who has worked in the automobile and advertising industries, he has worked ambitiously and paid taxes most of his adult life. He has a long family history in the United States, with U.S. citizen grandparents. His grandfather was a state senator in South Dakota.

Burrows is a loving father, productive resident, and hard worker. He has more than paid for the minor infraction committed 34 years ago. Recently, New York Governor Patterson pardoned six legal permanent residents with similar cases old, minor cases that made them eligible for deportation. I ask that you issue a pardon so Mike Burrows can remain with his family and continue contributing to his community.

[Your name]

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