Neither are many others who face deportation orders despite having lived blameless lives for years after a minor offense.
Last year New Mexico became the first to make them mandatory after a first offense.
Employees who broke the rules would be disciplined, and even fired after a fourth offense.
The law also sets an escalated series of fines that go up to $500 after a third offense.
Imagine a player barred for life after a second offense.
In 2012, two men were sentenced to death after a third offense in Khorasan.
Most other states that impose extra-long sentences after a third offense require the third strike to be a violent or at least a serious crime.
It contended that the penalty was actually harsher than for illegal drugs, for which players are suspended only after a second offense.
After a second offense he was exiled to Tunisia, where he wrote his own epitaph and committed suicide.
As in California, treatment is mandatory after a second offense.