May 11, 2010 – Last May, Aaron Gonzalez-Rodriguez was pulled over in Charleston for turning left on a yellow arrow.
For most people, it would have been a nuisance, a fine to pay or fight.
For Gonzalez-Rodriguez, it was a life-altering mistake.
He ended up in a Pennsylvania jail, staring helplessly at his wife and two young daughters as they wailed on the other side of the glass partition.
So began a journey toward an unlikely, and rare, decision in favor of an undocumented worker – a decision that came about because of the work of the Immigration Law Clinic at West Virginia University.
