On Thursday, March 27, a mother and her three children were arrested by ICE In Harbor Sackets, in the state of New Yorkaccording to the Oenegé New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), which fights for the rights of immigrants.
When immigration authorities executed an arrest on a farm, He also entered another property house, without a court order, and arrested them. Since then, the mother and children have been transferred to the ICE detention center in Karnes County in Texas.
ICE agents had come to the farm to look for a man accused of possess images of sexual abuse of minors, and it is not clear how this arrest is related to that of the familyaccording to the WPTZ chain, affiliated with NBC News.
In this process, seven people, among whom is the family, were found at the time of detention and transferred to a nearby station of the border patrolwhere they were treated as “illegal immigrants.”
“It’s simply cruel”
New York governor described this detention as “simply cruel” and said that “It is not the application of the promised immigration law to the American people“
“I can’t think of public security justification For ICE agents to start an innocent family, including a child in the third year (of primary education, that is, 8-9 years), of their home in Harbor Sackets, ”he said in a statement.
Hochul indicated that he wants this family return to the state of New York and believes that immigration authorities must respond immediately for these actions.
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