âEgregiousâ ICE raid in New Jersey targets U.S. citizens and military veteran
Officials accuse â?? jackbooted thugsâ?? of warrantless searches under Trump administrationâ??s anti-immigration agenda
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Federal immigration authorities arrested at least one U.S. citizen and a military veteran during a raid inside a New Jersey fish market, according to city and state officials.
Roughly one dozen Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrived unannounced at Ocean Seafood Depot on Thursday, without a warrant, demanding to see documents for employees, they said.
Agents made âno prior announcementâ when they stormed into the market, âblocking entrances, scrambling up delivery rampsâ and âbanging on bathroom doors,â Amy Torres with New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice told reporters Friday.
A worker stands at the parking area of the Ocean Seafood Depot where several workers were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers ( AFP via Getty Images)The arrests followed Donald Trumpâs sweeping anti-immigration actions in his first week in office, including rescinding long-standing policy that prohibits arrests in places like schools and churches, and threatening to prosecute officials in so-called âsanctuaryâ cities like Newark that limit cooperation.
âI feel like we have to be a country of law, but we have to go after bad people, not working people,â business owner Luis Janota told local news network ABC7. âThese are family people. These are people who show up to work every day.â
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said the âegregiousâ arrests were âin plain violationâ of the Fourth and 14th Amendments.
âNewark will not stand by idly while people are being unlawfully terrorized,â he said.
A spokesperson for ICE told CBS News that officers âmay encounter U.S. citizens while conducting field work and may request identification to establish an individual's identity as was the case during a targeted enforcement operationâ in Newark.
A Newark field office declined to comment to The Independent citing policy against commenting on âongoing investigations.â
Mayor Baraka criticized what he called ICEâs âcavalierâ language, suggesting that âthese things happenâ and âthere are going to be citizens who we stop and question.
âHow do you determine who is undocumented and who is a criminal just by looking at them?â he said.
âThis type of sterile language suggests there was deep intel ⦠there wasnât supposed to be collateral damage,â Torres said. âWhy was a U.S. citizen interrogated? Why was a military veteranâs credential and honor called into question? ⦠ICE lies. ⦠They use fear and racism to justify their presence, their profile and their power grabs.â
In operations across the country on Thursday, ICE arrested 538 people and lodged 373 detainers, which are requests to law enforcement agencies to notify ICE before releasing anyone in custody who could be in the country without legal permission.
Signage opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement appeared in Chicagoâs Little Village neighborhood, one of many communities across the country bracing for Trumpâs immigration actions (REUTERS )White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said those 538 people are all âillegal immigrant criminals, including a suspected terrorist, four members of the Tren de Aragua gang, and several illegals convicted of sex crimes against minors.â
But the numbers are not all that remarkable compared to immigration enforcement actions over the last year during Joe Bidenâs administration, when average daily ICE arrests reached more than 300, and average daily detainers issued reached roughly 400.
Similar ICE operations were reported this week in Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Philadelphia, Seattle, Miami, New York City, and Washington, DC.
Immigration advocacy groups and Democratic officials fear the Trumpâs administrationâs latest salvo in his âmass deportationâ agenda âis the reality of Trumpâs reign of terror, but itâs not the America generations have fought for,â according to New Jersey Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman.
Trump signed a series of executive orders on January 20 targeting immigration policy ( AP)She called the arrests in Newark a âdisgraceâ and âwhat we expect from two-bit dictators in banana republics.â
âWarrantless searches, jackbooted thugs, veterans detained,â she said. âIt doesnât matter if youâre a citizen who served our country in uniform, you too can be stopped without a warning or a warrant and shaken down for your papers. You too can be detained indefinitely and without cause. You too can be rounded up and whisked away.â
A joint statement from New Jerseyâs Senators Cory Booker and Andy Kim said warrantless searches and targeted arrests in private businesses âsow fear in all of our communities â and our broken immigration system requires solutions, not fear tactics.â
Trumpâs administration has also reinstated âexpedited removalâ procedures, allowing immigration authorities to swiftly deport any undocumented person arrested within the United States who cannot prove they have been living in the country for more than two years.
The president also is gutting legal immigration pathways, including shutting down processing centers throughout Latin America, closing an app that facilitated asylum claims, and effectively shutting the U.S. Mexico border to anyone seeking asylum in the United States despite obligations under international law.
On Thursday, a federal judge temporarily blocked Trumpâs âblatantly constitutionalâ executive order to redefine the 14th Amendmentâs birthright citizenship clause, while 22 states, civil groups groups and pregnent woman launch legal battles across the country to overturn the order.
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