Iowa Radio Personality Avoids Deportation

James Shaman

A Mason City radio personality says it's like the "weight of the world" was lifted off his shoulders after learning he could stay in the U.S. following a potential deportation to Canada, according to The Des Moines Register.

James Shaman of KLKK 103.7 FM /The Fox said he learned federal prosecutors have agreed to settle his case.

The 40-year-old native of Manitoba, Canada, says he should get his green card back soon. He came to the U.S. with his parents when he was 2.

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Shaman, now Program Director at KLKK and mid-day host, says a record check over three years ago at a border crossing alerted officials to a 1993 burglary conviction. He says he has turned his life around since then.

Federal law allows legal foreign residents to be deported for a number of criminal convictions.