{"id":300663,"date":"2017-03-25T19:08:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T18:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/arrest-of-family-in-geneseo-new-york-by-us-border-patrol-draws-protest\/"},"modified":"2017-03-25T19:08:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T18:08:06","slug":"arrest-of-family-in-geneseo-new-york-by-us-border-patrol-draws-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/arrest-of-family-in-geneseo-new-york-by-us-border-patrol-draws-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest of family in Geneseo, New York by US Border Patrol draws protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Arrest of family in Geneseo, New York by US Border Patrol draws protest<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    our reporters<br \/>\n    <br \/>25 March 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Border Patrol officers arrested an extended family of mixed citizenship status Thursday, March 23 in Geneseo, New York. The family was on their way to church when a Geneseo Police Department (GPD) officer pulled them over for a traffic violation on the campus of the State University of New York College at Geneseo (SUNY Geneseo). Much of the evening\u2019s proceedings were captured on video.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Rochester-based <em>Democrat &amp; Chronicle<\/em>, the minivan contained two adults, both sisters from Guatemala, and six children. Reports indicate that five of the children are US citizens, including an infant born in the United States in January.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageFull\" style=\"width:480px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/890c469d-1a95-40e4-aeb3-3d553d5be7cG\/image.jpg?rendition=image480\" style=\"width:480px;\" \/><span>Border Patrol officer discusses details of detention with mother and child [Photo credit: Evan Goldstein]<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Although the Village of Geneseo does not require that their officers call Border Patrol if they suspect an immigration violation, the officer who initiated the traffic stop did so, supposedly \u201cto confirm the identity of the person driving,\u201d according to Geneseo Police Chief Eric Osganian, after the driver could not produce a valid driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n<p>New York state does not permit undocumented immigrants to obtain driver\u2019s licenses, although twelve states do, including California and Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Rutigliano, a village trustee and SUNY Geneseo student, confirmed to the World Socialist Web Site that GPD officers are not required to call immigration authorities. \u201cThe village does not have a specific policy against it, but ICE is a federal obligation, the village does not have an obligation to complete their work for them, or even start it for that matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the three-hour traffic stop, a crowd of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/03\/25\/gene-25.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Arrest of family in Geneseo, New York by US Border Patrol draws protest By our reporters 25 March 2017 Border Patrol officers arrested an extended family of mixed citizenship status Thursday, March 23 in Geneseo, New York. The family was on their way to church when a Geneseo Police Department (GPD) officer pulled them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-300663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}