“Everything I see about your history and characteristics are of a mitigating nature and a positive nature,” says Judge Richard Jones.

The court recognizes that he came voluntarily to the US, has not previously broken laws, and that he took “extraordinary steps and significant steps” in cooperation with law enforcement. But the nature of the events was “aggravating.”

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