ICE agents detained a San Diego man at his annual check-in on Wednesday, acting on a decades-old deportation order, leaving his wife begging for mercy as he awaits a hearing to try and vacate a conviction his attorney said was “fundamentally flawed” from the start.

Chuong Dong came to the U.S. in 1981 as a 12-year-old refugee from Vietnam and received a green card shortly afterward. Enduring abuse by his family, he said in a court filing, he dropped out of school in ninth grade and started associating with “the wrong crowd.”

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In 1989, he stole two speakers and pleaded guilty to robbery at the advice of his public defender to avoid a trial and lessen his sentence, he said. He was later charged with burglary, which

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