"Nearly 2,000 immigrants won an early release from prison last October when the US Justice Department agreed to retroactively reduce their federal drug sentences. Some were deported; others were transferred to detention centers. So far, advocates say none have been allowed to stay freely in the United States. Junior Francisco hopes he will be the first.

Francisco arrived in New Jersey from the Dominican Republic in 2003 after marrying his high school sweetheart. When his wife became a US citizen in 2008, he became a lawful legal permanent resident. The couple had two daughters and a happy life together until she suffered a miscarriage in 2010, and fell into a deep depression around the same time he was laid off."

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