An upstate New York newspaper shows how to cover ICE abuses

[applegrove]

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An upstate New York newspaper shows how to cover ICE abuses

June 30th, 2026

Jamison Foser

https://www.findinggravity.net/an-upstate-new-york-newspaper-shows-how-to-cover-ice-abuses/

"Hours of newly released body camera videos show the tactics Oswego County sheriff’s deputies used to help federal immigration agents carry out President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement last year.

The videos show sheriff’s deputies stopping Hispanic drivers on country roads for accusations like wide turns or failing to signal a turn early enough – minor traffic violations they would find difficult to prove.

Then, deputies handed drivers and their passengers over to U.S. Border Patrol agents who were on a new, quota-driven mission to collect and deport non-citizens". [Emphasis added]

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That’s what it looks like when a news company takes seriously the threats the authoritarian MAGA movement poses to American freedom and behaves accordingly. By contrast, the nation’s elite media spent years pretending the greatest threat to free speech in America came in the form of Ivy League students protesting guest speakers with views they found abhorrent.

[CoopersDad]

1. This video goes with your OP. K/R.

Little boys love to play dress-up.

[applegrove]

2. Here is more:

Sometimes, federal agents rode in the sheriff deputies’ cars. Sometimes they were just moments away. Other times, sheriff’s deputies called agents and stalled while they drove to the scene.

That is a violation of civil rights available to everyone in the United States, regardless of citizenship, according to a 2018 case won by the New York Civil Liberties Union. [Emphasis added]

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The deputy took the driver’s phone back to his patrol car and called the Border Patrol. The closest Border Patrol agent was 35 minutes away, they said.

So, the deputy waited.

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“You got some customers for us?” Border Patrol agents asked the deputy when they arrived.

Holding people for immigration agents beyond the usual time it takes to write a ticket is a violation of state law, according to the 2018 ruling. [Emphasis added]

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Telmo Labato, of Mexico, was riding in the backseat of a van to his job at an apple packing plant when sheriff’s deputies and Border Patrol agents stopped the driver.

Border Patrol agents detained Labato and four others. Labato was raising his son, Perdon, alone in Fulton. The teen is a U.S. citizen.

Teachers gathered around Perdon at school that day to tell him that his father had been detained.

“He was left alone there,” Labato told Syracuse.com earlier this month in an interview from Mexico. “Can you imagine the emotional damage?”

[calimary]

3. I hope at least one of those teachers took the boy home

and made sure he’s safe and protected til the dad is freed and can come get him. Same for the other four also taken into custody.

Somebody has to protect them and keep them safe from the arresting goons.

[erronis]

4. Any info on the name of the newspaper? Or even a link?

Maybe I'm blind or brain-fried but I don't see any info.

[applegrove]

5. I found a link:

https://www.findinggravity.net/an-upstate-new-york-newspaper-shows-how-to-cover-ice-abuses/

[OhioBack2Blue]

6. Syracuse.com (1994) operates as the online home for The Syracuse Post-Standard newspaper (founded in1829).

[erronis]

8. Thank you - and other responders!

[SouthBayDem]

7. Syracuse Post-Standard

https://www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06/videos-show-questionable-tactics-oswego-sheriffs-deputies-used-to-aid-trumps-migrant-hunt.html

[erronis]

12. That is great reporting! Kudos to Syracuse Post-Standard. And thanks to you.

I've lived in upstate NY and have relatives from Syracuse so I am familiar with them. Exceptional.

[applegrove]

10. I originally did a search for the original article using text

from the article and it didn't come up. So Icassumed it was not online. Sorry.

[Seinan Sensei]

9. "He doesn't speak English"

Anyone ever drive in Mexico, and speak no Spanish?
Or Germany?
Or Japan?

[haele]

13. I live on a border town. There are US Citizens who are more comfortable speaking

A different language than English because it's more often used by cross-border family members around the house, especially if they're sponsoring Abuelita along with Tio Martin or Tia Guadalupe to come across in green cards and work Visas to both help care for Abuelita and help the family business.
A lot of families have lived here for 200, 250 years, before there was a border. Going to Los Angeles from Ensenada to marry a friend's cousin you met at huge family get-togethers on both sides of the border is not unheard of.
My natural born citizen neighbor married a Tijuana friend's cousin from Oaxaca and she got a green card forty years ago. And still technically doesn't speak English.
She can read it fluently, like I can read Spanish fluently.
But speaking it? Totally different skill set.

[3Hotdogs]

11. Ar NYAG or governor going to do anything about it?

[Bayard]

14. This kind of makes me wonder if sheriff's deputies are getting bonuses for doing this