Bethany Bump reports for the Albany Times Union that on Jan. 23, on a routine visit to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Latham Albany cook Kinimo Ngoran was detained. He sought asylum a decade ago from religious persecution of Christians in the Ivory Coast in West Africa, but he was denied. Ngoran was sent to the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility in Batavia, where he awaits deportation. He was a cook for the Capital City Rescue Mission in Albany, and Albany County Sheriff frequently works with the mission, and he wrote on Facebook how upset he was about the incident. "I understand there needs to be immigration reform. I lived it for most of 2018. But when immigration calls an immigrant to their office....who cooks 800 meals a day at the city mission, who has been mentored by one of the most caring men I’ve ever met, takes his $150 check, and locks him up, ships him to my jail then to Batavia, enough is enough. This is not what we do in this country. This man doesn’t deserve this. I understand some may need to go back, but we are treating this as a one size fits all. This is immoral and just dam wrong," the sheriff wrote on Facebook. ICE officials were not responding. "All of ICE's public affairs officers are out of the office for the duration of the government shutdown. We are unable to respond to media queries during this period because we are prohibited by law from working. If you still require a response, please resubmit your query upon the government re-opening," a message from the ICE office said last week. Read the full story in the Albany Times Union.