A crowd of Syracuse medical workers, union members, community residents, and politicians gathered Monday evening in downtown Syracuse — bearing frigid temperatures and heavy snowfall — to protest the detention of two Upstate Hospital employees.
The rally filled the exterior of the James M. Hanley Federal Building, where speakers called for the release of Alex Gonzalez and Yan Vasquez, a married couple who sought asylum in the United States after fleeing Cuba.
Alex’s cousin, Miriam Manso, said both men attended a scheduled immigration hearing on October 29, when ICE agents forcefully transported them to the Buffalo Federal Detention Center in Batavia, New York…