LAPD officer was the `immigrant dream´ before his life changed at a Border Patrol checkpoint
(LA Times MLB)

When proponents of tougher enforcement talk about people coming to the U.S. `the right way,` they often describe immigrants like Mambasse Patara. The 53-year-old Fontana resident entered the U.S. legally from Togo in 1999, then earned his citizenship by fighting in the Iraq war as a Marine. He...