Steve was quoted by Syracuse.com in Immigration Crackdown in Upstate NY: A Knock at the Door and Fear: ‘Everything is Different.’ He said, “ICE is definitely arresting more people right now, and making a big show of it.” Commenting on reports that ICE is starting with people who have committed crimes but is giving arrest quotas to ICE offices, Steve said deportations are likely to increase, noting that “[i]t is hard to meet quotas by just arresting noncitizens who have criminal convictions. For that reason, I suspect that ICE offices are going to places where they suspect there are a lot of immigrants, whether or not they have criminal convictions.”
