Wendy Liberatore in the Albany Times Union reports that Tom Feeley, the upstate New York field office director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, on Dec. 27 defended the stepped up efforts of his agency. “We were ordered not to fully enforce the law under the previous administration,” said Feeley, who is based in Buffalo, said. “Under President Trump, we are enforcing the law the way Congress wrote it. If it’s a heinous crime, like a Columbian drug lord who was a cartel member who we just deported or a rapist, a murderer, a pedophile or somebody who is here illegally, we are going to enforce the law. We make no apology for that.” ICE arrested 36 Mexican and Guatemalan men in Saratoga Springs this year, many of whom worked in local restaurants. Feeley's office arrested 1,736 people in the 2017 fiscal year, up from 1,454 the year before. “Only Congress can change the law,” Feeley said. “The American people need to act if they want it changed.”