The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency confirmed the “targeted enforcement operation” at a worksite in Newark, which is a sanctuary city.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided a Newark, New Jersey, business venue on Thursday and detained undocumented immigrants as well as U.S. citizens without warrants, the city's mayor said.
Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka issued a statement late Thursday afternoon denouncing the raid as an “egregious act” conducted without a warrant and in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees “the right of the people be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.”
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka confirmed in a statement that the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a business establishment in the city.
Tensions are high after Newark, New Jersey, mayor Ras Baraka said ICE raided ... is the product of a merger of the former U.S. Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
ICE said it conducted a 'targeted enforcement operation at a worksite' in Newark but did not disclose details. The owner of a restaurant said three of his workers were taken into custody.
Senate Majority Leader Teresa Ruiz took to the podium in Newark City Hall on Friday, hours after immigration enforcement officials shocked the city in a job site raid — and
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents appear to have stepped up their detention of unauthorized immigrants, taking more than 500 people into custody on Thursday, almost twice the average number of daily arrests late last year.
U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-10th District, said her office had asked agency officials for answers. “Already, Trump’s attacks on immigrant communities are hitting home, and we will not back down,” she said.
Mayor Ras J. Baraka, elected officials, and immigrant-serving organizations at a press conference discussing a warrantless U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid that took place ...
Newsweek understands Enforcement and Removal Operations officers have been particularly "enthusiastic" since Trump returned.
CAIRO — Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained two individuals in a worksite operation in the town of Cairo on Tuesday, the immigrant support nonprofit Columbia County Sanctuary Movement said The action took place between 6 and 8 a.