D.A.: Illegal immigrants were playing by rules

Jun. 23, 2009
San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris said Tuesday that half a dozen illegal immigrants whose drug convictions were expunged as part of a job-training program that she oversaw were "following the rules" and deserved to be exonerated even after...
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