After 30 years, immigration chief won't be around for Trump's changes
By Phil Fairbanks
Published Sun, Jan 1, 2017
Long before Donald Trump and his much-ballyhooed wall at the Mexican border, Michael T. Phillips toiled on the front lines of immigration enforcement.
He started as a 22-year-old inspector on the Peace Bridge and, over the next three decades, rose through the ranks to become one of the most important, and largely unknown, faces of the post-9/11 security effort here.
It was a journey that eventually put the Kenmore native in charge of one of the region’s largest jails and often gave him the final word on whether undocumented immigrants were deported or allowed to stay.
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