New Concerns for Foreign Students Along Northern Border

A recent article highlights the increasingly aggressive enforcement of U.S. immigration laws against international students attending colleges and universities along the northern border of the U.S.  Interestingly, the article, written by Colin Woodard, reads:

In upstate New York, it's a different story. For reasons that remain unclear, Customs and Border Protection has had an aggressive presence away from the immediate border, especially around the northern city of Potsdam or in central New York cities like Rochester and Syracuse, which are relatively far from the nearest border crossings. Area residents say Border Patrol officers maintain a near-constant presence at Rochester's bus station and frequently question passengers at the airport. They regularly board domestic Amtrak trains passing through the area en route from Chicago to New York, where they shine flashlights in sleeping passengers' faces.

Our office has seen first-hand the increasing amount of arrests made in upstate New York and regularly defend these individuals when referred for removal proceedings before the Immigration Court in Buffalo, New York. 

The article provides some very interesting examples of U.S. Border Patrol arrests of international students at some of New York State's top academic institutions. 

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