Rochester officials and area activists are responding with concern to the Trump administration’s immigration plan. The deportations are likely to have a serious impact in Upstate New York, not only in rural areas, where immigrants are working on farms and vineyards, but also in cities, whose residents include refugees from countries the administration is targeting. […]
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Immigration ruling creates anxiety, fear
The Supreme Court has taken something very powerful away from a few million people: hope. And some of those people live in the Rochester region, many of them working on local farms. Last week, the court deadlocked on a legal challenge to an immigration directive from President Barack Obama. The executive order gave undocumented immigrants […]
