J. Dale Shoemaker

Buffalo

Journalist. Reporting on developers, labor & immigration @IPostNews. Holding the powerful to account without fear or favor. [email protected]

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City contractor, a Scanlon donor, faces fine over labor violations

3 weeks ago | investigativepost.org | J. Dale Shoemaker

Under city law, one of Buffalo’s largest paving contractors could have been fined and barred from bidding on lucrative contracts because of its admission to wage theft. Instead, the Common Council, despite reservations and headed by then-President Chris Scanlon, awarded D&H Paving $6.9 million in work last July. At the time, the lawmakers expressed concern that D&H Paving was under investigation by the state Department of Labor.
Another ICE Deportation in Defiance of Court Order

4 weeks ago | americancommunitymedia.org | J. Dale Shoemaker

For at least the second time since President Donald Trump took office, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deported a migrant in defiance of federal judges — this time a Salvadoran man long held in detention in Western New York. The Trump administration’s most recent action occurred May 7.
ICE deports another Salvadoran man in defiance of court order

4 weeks ago | investigativepost.org | J. Dale Shoemaker

Jordin Melgar-Salmeron, 31, prior to his deportation. For at least the second time since President Donald Trump took office, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deported a migrant in defiance of federal judges — this time a Salvadoran man long held in detention in Western New York. The Trump administration’s most recent action occurred May 7.
ICE Again Deports Salvadoran In Defiance of Court Order

4 weeks ago | documentedny.com | J. Dale Shoemaker

This story was co-published with Investigative Post, an investigative reporting center based in Buffalo. Find their work at investigativepost.org. And reach reporter J. Dale Shoemaker at [email protected]. For at least the second time since President Donald Trump took office, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deported a migrant in defiance of federal judges — this time a Salvadoran man long held in detention in Western New York.
Immigrant family jailed at border emigrates to Canada

1 month ago | investigativepost.org | J. Dale Shoemaker

Marcos, Aracely, Madelin and Itzyana on the Rainbow Bridge. Photo by J. Dale Shoemaker. A Salvadoran family previously detained for weeks in a makeshift cell at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls and separated by ICE has successfully emigrated to Canada and been reunited in Toronto. The mother and her two children were admitted May 5.
ICE raids immigration court in Buffalo

1 month ago | niagara-gazette.com | J. Dale Shoemaker

In a rare, perhaps unprecedented move, armed ICE agents raided the federal immigration court in downtown Buffalo Wednesday, seizing four people who had showed up for scheduled hearings. Two people present in the court building on Delaware Avenue told Investigative Post they saw between six and 12 Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers — many in plainclothes, some armed — present in common areas and at least one courtroom. kAm“x’G6 ?6G6C 962C5 @7 :E[ x’G6 ?6G6C D66?
ICE raids immigration court in Buffalo

1 month ago | investigativepost.org | J. Dale Shoemaker

In a rare, perhaps unprecedented move, armed ICE agents raided the federal immigration court in downtown Buffalo Wednesday, seizing four people who had showed up for scheduled hearings. Two people present in the court building on Delaware Avenue told Investigative Post they saw between six and 12 Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers — many in plainclothes, some armed — present in common areas and at least one courtroom.
ICE raids immigration court in Buffalo

1 month ago | lockportjournal.com | J. Dale Shoemaker

In a rare, perhaps unprecedented move, armed ICE agents raided the federal immigration court in downtown Buffalo Wednesday, seizing four people who had showed up for scheduled hearings. Two people present in the court building on Delaware Avenue told Investigative Post they saw between six and 12 Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers — many in plainclothes, some armed — present in common areas and at least one courtroom. kAm“x’G6 ?6G6C 962C5 @7 :E[ x’G6 ?6G6C D66?
Western New York prosecutors don't pursue wage theft violators

1 month ago | investigativepost.org | J. Dale Shoemaker

Wage theft — the practice of an employer withholding pay or benefits from a worker — has been considered a felony crime in New York since September 2023. Yet in the 20 months since, not a single prosecutor in the eight counties of Western New York has brought a single case under the statute. It’s not for a lack of offenders. Data from state and federal labor investigators shows that at least a dozen cases have met the $1,000 threshold of felony larceny since the law changed.
New York to take smaller cut of Western OTB's annual revenue

1 month ago | investigativepost.org | J. Dale Shoemaker

Byron Brown speaks to reporters at Batavia Downs. Photo by Garrett Looker. Just six months into his tenure at the Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp., former Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown netted the agency a major win in Albany. Tucked away in the state’s sprawling $254 billion budget that Gov. Kathy Hochul signed Friday is a provision that could save OTB between $4 million and $5 million per year by reducing the state’s take of revenues.