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ICE now targeting Afghans, rule followers
['J. Dale Shoemaker']
Investigative Post
Recent federal lawsuits illustrate ICE's latest tactics in upstate and Western New York: Targeting Afghanis who had nothing to do with the Washington, D.C., shooting and Latino migrants who attend mandatory check-in appointments.
You’re showing up.”Among those detained at their check-ins is a Venezuelan asylum seeker who had been living in Rochester.
From January through October of last year, ICE data shows that 72 Venezuelan immigrants were arrested across Western New York.
Migrants arrested under the new rule are not eligible for bond, as they were previously.
“Because if they do, and they attend their check-ins, they attend their meetings, they’re going to be detained.