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Immigration Enforcement Not on Campus, Cornell Confirms After Hours of Fear
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Cornell on Tuesday afternoon confirmed federal immigration enforcement agents were not on campus after more than four hours of widespread alarm and concern.
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EDITORIAL: ICE Arrest Shows Limits of Sanctuary Cities
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Last Wednesday, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 32-year old Mexican national and Ithaca resident Jose L. Guzman. The event was confirmed and only widely spread once reporters investigated the swift and shocking arrest, a bleak reminder that federal agencies are operating faster than ever under the auspices of the current administration. ICE has become more active over the past few months, increasing their arrests by a staggering 32.6 percent only a few weeks after Trump assumed the presidency. Under the Obama administration, federal agents were directed to focus on serious criminals — now, empowered by the new administration, ICE is increasingly merciless in its efforts to deport undocumented immigrants, even those with no criminal record. “Before, we used to be told, ‘You can’t arrest those people,’ and we’d be disciplined for being insubordinate if we did…Now those people are priorities again,” a 10-year veteran of the ICE agency admitted to The New York Times.
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Attorney Cannot Reach Ithaca Immigrant Client Facing Deportation
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The attorney is still representing Guzman on a years-old assault charge, but has not been able to contact him while he is being held at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility.
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DANBERG BIGGS | Campus Solidarity and Something That Really Matters
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His contributions and connections, all the constitutive elements of personhood in society, meant nothing when he was taken by an unmarked van. That his city wanted him here was unimportant — Ithaca’s sanctuary status meant very little as well.
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PHOTOS: More Than 300 Protest ICE Arrest of Mexican National in Ithaca
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José L. Guzman, 32, was picked up by ICE officers on Tuesday afternoon and is currently being held at a detention center in Batavia. Hundreds protested his arrest at a rally on Wednesday.
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Ithaca Officials Air Frustrations With ICE as Hundreds Protest Agency’s Arrest
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Ithaca officials spoke directly with ICE on Wednesday to express their frustration with the agency’s Tuesday arrest of a 32-year-old Mexican citizen who lived in the city as hundreds protested downtown.
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ICE Agents Arrest ‘Unlawfully Present Mexican National’ in Ithaca
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested “one unlawfully present Mexican national” in Ithaca on Tuesday, an ICE spokesman and a Cornell student who said she witnessed the arrest told The Sun.
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Ithacans, Cornellians Slam ICE After Local Farm Worker is Detained
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He has a work permit, a social security card and four children, all U.S. citizens. Nearly a month ago, ICE detained him following an incident of workplace violence in which he allegedly was the victim.
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Former Immigration Court Judge Details Problems with Judicial System
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Paul Schmidt, former judge, said the American immigration courts are going through an ‘existential crisis.’
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Protesters Demand Sanctuary, Funding for Undocumented Cornellians and IC Students
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Cornell Coalition for Inclusive Democracy organized a protest around the Arts Quad on Thursday, demanding that the university take concrete measures to safeguard DACA-affiliated students.