Family Detained in Immigration Raid in Tom Homan’s Hometown Is Released

Residents of Sackets Harbor, New York, protested the detention of a mother and her three school-aged children.

A mother and her three children swept up in an immigration raid in the hometown of border czar Tom Homan have been released following an outpouring of support from locals outraged at their detention.

The response in Sackets Harbor and the surrounding Jefferson County, located on the shores of Lake Ontario on the western edge of New York’s North Country Region, was one of disbelief and anger — not least because Homan hails from the area and owns a home in Sackets Harbor.

Slimeball liar changes his tune:

In initial statements about the detention of the family, a CBP spokesperson indicated the family was in the process of deportation. But amid the backlash, Homan told a local news channel last week that the family was merely being questioned for their own safety, due to the nature of the allegations against the man targeted in the raid.

You haul a mother and three children all the way to a Texas prison just so they can be “questioned for their own safety”? Friggin’ liar!

“They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case

“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a union official about a raid in western New York.

An immigration raid in western New York on Friday targeted a group of immigrants involved in a landmark statewide effort by farm workers to unionize.

Several of the workers taken into custody on Friday have been active in efforts to unionize year-round employees, including at least one who has spoken publicly in favor of joining the United Farm Workers of America, according to Elizabeth Strater, director of strategic campaigns for UFW, the storied labor union. 

“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said Strater.