Outside Christ the King Episcopal Church in Stone Ridge, a crowd gathered under a handful of open umbrellas and a gray, misting sky to raise and amplify each other’s voices — and to keep the media’s attention focused on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrest and detainment of a community member with no criminal record who, in seeking asylum in the United States, had done everything the legal system expected of him.

Saida Faqirzada was there in front of the church, and it was her brother, Ali, a 31-year-old computer science student at Bard College who earns his pay as a Kingston hospital security guard, who had been taken by ICE agents after attending an Oct. 14 asylum interview on Long Island.

Charged with locating and arresting “the worst of the worst criminal illegal immi

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