California Governor Jerry Brown celebrated Christmas by pardoning two convicted criminal aliens to prevent their deportation next week.
Brown’s Christmas giving this year included granting 132 pardons and commuting 19 prison sentences. According to the online application, pardons are reserved for those individuals that have completed their sentence, and then received a court-issued certificate of rehabilitation for living crime-free in California for over a decade.
But Brown pardoned Mony Neth of Modesto and Rottanak Kong of Davis. Both convicted criminals were arrested in October task force sweeps by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (ICE) and were subject to deportation orders signed by federal judges effective beginning December 25th.
