Cato, N.Y. – Sheriff’s deputies stopped Lenny Schmidt in the driveway of his family’s protein bar factory. Federal agents and deputies swarmed the parking lot. They ordered him to stay put and blocked his path.

Then an immigration agent came up to his truck and told him they had a warrant for a violent felon, Schmidt said. If they could find him, they’d be out of there fast, Schmidt said the agent told him.

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