General Discussion

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?”