Jockey faces possibility of deportation over old arrest(rode Smarty Jones)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/11036209.htm

Stewart Elliott, the jockey who nearly rode to the Triple Crown last year, is in danger of becoming one of the tens of thousands of immigrants deported each year for committing a felony.

The native-born Canadian found himself in trouble with immigration officials in December when a computerized database flagged his name at a New York airport as he got off a flight from Hong Kong.

Elliot is a lawful permanent resident of the United States, but his ability to remain here was jeopardized in 2001 when he pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in New Jersey.

Under a tough-as-nails U.S. immigration-reform law passed in 1996, "an alien convicted of an aggravated felony shall be conclusively presumed to be deportable." It also encourages the deportation of people convicted of a crime of "moral turpitude."

[MisterP]

1. how very--eugenic

"War On the Weak" is a very good book

[Anakin Skywalker]

2. How Did That Happen?

How was he able to assault anyone?

[daleo]

3. Maybe another jockey?

Those guys can get pretty intense, I have heard. Just a hunch.

[jaysunb]

4. Jockeys are tough LITTLE men

they have to be to handle a 1200 pound animal going 35 mile a hour.

Most of them have "short guy complexes," and don't mind mixing it up. Don't be fooled by their size.

If I'm not mistaken, he kicked a guys ass in a bar room fight. A regular sized guy......

[daleo]

5. I just read a book called "A Day at the Races"

It had nothing to do with the Marx Brothers movie of the same name. The book was written in the mid-eighties, based on interviews with track people from hot walkers to betting sheet producers. There were several entries from and/or about jockeys, and their comments were very similar to yours.