The Department of Homeland Security told the news station ICE and other federal law enforcement agencies had started conducting operations in parts of New York to enforce immigration law on March 24.

Advocates said the family's case had been working its way through the U.S. immigration system, and their detainment by ICE in late March prompted outcry in the New York community near the U.S ...

She said that there will be an economic toll in Central New York on top of the human toll being paid as she describes ICE agents tearing families apart. "It's a slippery slope to giving up our rights.