Under the Trump administration, every part of the country is confronting a massive uptick in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity that knows no legal bounds. Immigrant communities throughout the United States have been forced to live in fear amid constant ICE raids and especially following the murders of Minneapolis residents Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti. But ICE violence should not be isolated to this moment.

Radio Catskill’s Julia Kim had the chance to speak with Angelo Guisado, an attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights who specializes in immigrants’ rights, and Weldon McWilliams, who serves as chair of one of the oldest Black Studies departments in the nation at SUNY New Paltz on how the history of ICE goes much deeper than what Americans are seeing right now and may be foundational to how we understand this country.

At your local library, you’ll find lots of books – but you may also find tax preparers, museum passes, and yoga classes. But library advocates say the services they provide are at risk under New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s latest budget.

The state budget proposes more than $11 million in cuts to the state’s library operating aid and construction budget. Advocates say this follows a rocky year of federal funding threats from the Trump administration to thousands of public libraries. Radio Catskill’s Kimberly Izar reports.