in america, you don t want to pay somebody $1 a day. you know, it s a lot easier to beat up on immigrants. if you do it enough, they re going to leave. they re not going to be there anymore. and that s kind of what the goal of the whole immigration detention system is, is this coercive tool to get people to accept deportation. i wrote a story about a man who was in immigration detention for six years waiting for his case to go through the courts. and i think the average stay in immigration detention is about a month, but there are many, many people who are in detention for far longer. you see people defeated all the time. detention is a great way the government has set up to really defeat people really defeat them. my name is craig apple. i m the sheriff here in albany county in upstate new york. what you saw going on in the country was a little bit horrifying, where you had children being taken away from their moms and dads,
ALBANY COUNTY At the county’s inaugural gun buyback program on Saturday, so many guns were handed over 117 that the Westmere firehouse venue shut down ahead of schedule. The sheriff’s office handed out over $10,000: $50 for an inoperable firearm, $100 for a rifle or long gun, and $200 for a pistol or handgun.
13 Investigates introduced you to Charleen Hunter in this video. Her serious psychiatric illness led police to handcuff her, tase her and carry her headfirst from her second-story apartment. It is not easy to watch the bodycam video from Hunter’s encounter with Stillwater police last fall. She admits she is embarrassed. However, coming forward, she […]