Emily Masters is reporting in the Times Union U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials told Hudson resident Elsa Martinez, Wed., Mar. 8, she would not be detained and deported. Martinez attended a meeting to discuss her immigration status at the Department of Homeland Security building in Latham accompanied by approximately 30 protesters, who cheered when Martinez emerged from the building. Martinez, the mother of five children, has lived in the United States for 27 years and owns a cleaning business. She now has a work permit and is filing for temporary protective status, a family member said. Martinez is the third member of her family recently embraced by the Columbia County Sanctuary Movement and Albany New Sanctuary Movement. Her brother Ramiro Martinez-Chacon was detained by immigration officers outside his Hudson home on Feb. 7. He is currently being held at the Rensselaer County jail on behalf of ICE. Martinez-Chacon's wife, Maria de Jesus Canterero Mercado, met with federal agents about her own immigration status on March 2, as members of local sanctuary groups rallied outside the Latham government building. Read the full story in the Times Union.