Lottery Winner Quizzed by INS
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from Associated Press
The California lottery’s latest double millionaire, a construction worker from Guatemala, surrendered today to immigration officials and could face deportation as an illegal alien, authorities said.
“He is here and he is being processed,” said Joe Thomas, a deputy director for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Julio Morales, 23, a resident of Hollywood who won $2 million in Monday’s “Big Spin,” had promised agents to appear at the INS’s Los Angeles district office this morning.
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