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Connie Chung Joe, the chief executive of Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California, said that in the last month her organization has been made aware of at least 17 community members in Los Angeles and Orange counties who have gone in for scheduled check-ins, only to be detained or deported.

“He’s willing to really learn, and he’s willing to listen,” said Supervisor Connie Chan, a progressive.

Connie Woodhead, a 30-year veteran of the Department of Justice and former first assistant U.S. attorney in the office where Schleifer worked, called the circumstances of his departure “unprecedented.”

He writes, “How could I condemn Vic? A month before, I had slapped Connie and condoned it in my own mind as an acceptable action for a man whose wife had cheated on him. The feeling I had at this moment was one of empathy with Vic, so much so that I assumed, as he did, that Eileen was lying when she said that nothing had happened between her and the salesman.”

Connie Chung Joe, executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California, said she has been told of Asian immigrants canceling medical appointments because they are afraid of being seen as a public charge.