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Immigration Papers: Court Wednesday and Miles Kilometres

immigration papers: After praying with supporters in a hallway, Ingrid Encalada Latorre testified in a bid to withdraw her guilty plea in a 2010 identity theft case involving her purchase of immigration papers, according to Metro News. She claims she did not know the documents were stolen. An immigrant who has been living in a Quaker meeting house to avoid deportation held back her fear of being arrested and ventured out to court Wednesday to fight for a chance to remain in the country. I want to be able to stay in this country with my family and my children, she said in Spanish through an interpreter in Jefferson County court in Golden, about 15 miles 24 kilometres from the meeting house in Denver where she has lived for six months with her youngest son. Latorre, a native of Cusco, Peru, is trying to get her conviction changed to a misdemeanour in the hope it would make her less likely to be deported. No uniformed immigration agents were visible at the court and the hearing proceeded normally. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.