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\u201cBorder czar\u201d Tom<\/span> Homan is facing a backlash in his own hometown of Sackets Harbor, New York, after an immigration raid swept up a mother and her three school-aged children.<\/p>\n U.S. Customs and Border Protection took the family and three others into custody on March 27 in an early-morning raid on a dairy farm in Sackets Harbor, a small hamlet on the shores of Lake Ontario, on the western edge of New York\u2019s North Country region. Within days, the mother and her children had been whisked away to Karnes County Immigration Processing Center, a privately operated Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas that accommodates families, according to people familiar with the family\u2019s case.\u00a0<\/p>\n Jefferson County, which includes Sackets Harbor and nearby West Carthage, where Homan grew up, is a deep-red bastion of support for President Donald Trump. Homan has been a prominent and enthusiastic <\/a>face of Trump\u2019s hard-line border policies, which he kicked off in January with an edict commanding immigration-enforcement agencies like CBP and ICE to ramp up deportations<\/a>. But now, with that enforcement landing close to home, locals are organizing a rally in support of the family and are planning to march past Homan\u2019s house in Sackets Harbor, according to Corey DeCillis, who chairs the Jefferson County chapter of the New York State Democratic Party.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople are upset about this,\u201d DeCillis told The Intercept Wednesday. \u201cThis is the United States of America, and there\u2019s no kid \u2014 or anybody for that matter \u2014 that should be treated the way those kids are treated.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n With three students enrolled at the local K-12 school suddenly taken by law enforcement, news of the raid spread rapidly, according to Jennifer Gaffney, superintendent of the Sackets Harbor Central School District.<\/p>\n \u201cThe reaction of our students is that they have been traumatized by this,\u201d Gaffney told The Intercept. \u201cThree of their classmates were taken, and they don\u2019t know where they are and they don\u2019t know if they\u2019re going to come back.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re talking about elementary school, middle school, and high school kids who are all impacted by the absence of their classmates who are detained,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Gaffney said she learned of the detention of the three students and their mother early on the morning of March 27 and immediately began reaching out to local elected officials to try and locate them, but for several days their whereabouts were uncertain. It was not until Sunday that it emerged that they had been moved to a detention center in Texas that accommodates families.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been a very, very difficult few days for teachers and staff and students,\u201d Gaffney said. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to remain hopeful, but it remains to be seen at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n Neither Gaffney nor CBP provided the names of the family members, citing privacy concerns.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n