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WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Published September 04North Country deputies sometimes paid to help arrest immigrants
One collaboration is called Operation Stonegarden. New York has participated since 2009. Governor Kathy Hochul supports it. It pays counties along the border with Canada to work with U.S. Border Patrol, including detaining immigrants. This year, Jefferson, St. Lawrence, Franklin,…
Investigative Post
Published August 25Program pays local cops to arrest immigrants
This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. A Jefferson County sheriff’s deputy was patrolling near a strip mall in Watertown, 30 miles south of New York’s border with Canada,…