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Orleans

A town in Jefferson County, New York — population 2,784 as of 2022.

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WAMC Northeast Public Radio September 4

North 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,…

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Investigative Post August 25

Program 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,…

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Orleans by the numbers

Population 2,784Population figure, 2022
Households & income
Median age
40.2
Households
1,072
Persons per household
2.6
Median household income
$77,500
Median house value
$190,300
2020–2024 ACS
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