Immigration Lawyer Leon Wildes, Who Successfully Stopped John Lennon’s Deportation, Passes Away at 90
John Lennon and Yoko Ono with attorney Leon Wildes as they leave the Immigration and Naturalization Service at 20 W. Broadway. James Garrett/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images Leon Wildes, a prominent immigration lawyer best known for his landmark, yearslong fight in the 1970s to prevent John Lennon from being deported and enable the...