As we contemplate our return to the U.S. in a few days’ time, we wonder what might await us when we present our valid U.S. passports to the Immigration and Customs official at our point of entry. Will an ICE agent be there to challenge or prevent our admission?…
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...we express our extreme disappointment that the Otsego County Sheriff’s Office has signed a 287(g) agreement with ICE. In summary, ICE is engaged in the following extra-legal activities...…
Dishwashers, mothers, gardeners, people who arrived as small children reportedly disappear to private prisons at undisclosed locations, simply vanishing from their communities and their families—along with a far smaller number of people who are legitimately arrested.…
The Sheriff’s Office has signed up for the “Warrant Service Officer Program,” one of three 287(g) models. Under the program, “ICE trains, certifies and authorizes” officers “to serve and execute administrative warrants on aliens currently in [the] agency’s custody,” according to the ICE website.…
Donald Trump campaigned on deporting the “worst of the worst” and has, as I expect you’re aware, hired a poorly trained army of well-funded yet poorly trained, unaccountable, masked men to meet unrealistic quotas.…
“We are not out here today for ourselves,” CooperstownOneonta Indivisible leader Virginia Kennedy said from the stage in Oneonta. “We are out here today because we care about our country.”…
Candidates Dan Buttermann (mayor), Will Rivera (town supervisor), Jill Basile (incumbent county representative, 14th district), Michele Clapperton (county representative, 13th district), Eamonn Hinchey (county representative, 4th district), Teresa DeSantis (town board), and independent Mike Forster Rothbart (incumbent city council, 7th ward) spoke. Around 25 people attended the October 11 event at Wise Guys Sammy’s hosted by the Oneonta Democratic Club in downtown Oneonta.…
AllOtsego’s 2025 pre-election coverage begins this week with a series of questions posed to Town of Hartwick supervisor candidates Cody E. Moore (REP, HUN) and Andrea Vazquez (CON). There was no word limit given. These are the candidates’ responses as they were received.…
AllOtsego’s 2025 pre-election coverage begins this week with a series of questions posed to City of Oneonta mayoral candidates Daniel Buttermann (DEM, BON) and Luisa Montanti (REP). There was no word limit given. These are the candidates’ responses as they were received.…
Jeannine Webster, a member of the Otsego Refugee Resettlement Coalition, will present at the Thursday, September 18 meeting of Butternut Valley Indivisible.…
