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How a School in a Tiny, New York Town Beat ICE
Sackets Harbor demanded that Tom Homan return three children and their mother. Why did he cave?
Not the final word.
Photographer: Christopher Dilts/BloombergWhen the school board, or most of it, met for its regularly scheduled session on April 15, Sackets Harbor was still a feel-good story.
Three immigrant students at the tiny upstate New York public school had been apprehended on March 27 in a raid of a local farm. They were shipped with their mother to a detention center in Texas. On March 31, after days of silence from federal agencies, local news outlets reported the family was in “removal proceedings.”