(Jeenah Moon/Pool Photo via AP, file) ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — A top U.S. Justice Department official said a county sheriff’s office in upstate New York would be investigated “for potential prosecution” ...

As the Trump administration ramps up its promise to deport illegal immigrants, the acting U.S. deputy attorney general turned his attention to an upstate New York sheriff who released a criminal ...

By Christopher Maag and Eileen Sullivan The acting U.S. deputy attorney general called on Thursday for an investigation of an upstate New York sheriff who had released an undocumented immigrant ...

Jesus Romero-Hernandez, 27, an illegal Mexican immigrant, is back behind bars after an upstate New York sheriff refused to hold him for federal immigration agents. Bloomberg via Getty Images The ...

Feds and New York Sheriff Spar Over Who Is to Blame for Release of Wanted Migrant ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — A top U.S. Justice Department official said a county sheriff's office in upstate New York wo ...

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — A top U.S. Justice Department official said a county sheriff's office in upstate New York would be investigated “for potential prosecution” because it released a Mexican ...

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