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
New Jersey Democratic officials slammed a workplace raid conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a seafood market in Newark on Thursday.
Mayor Ras Baraka said the state's largest city will not stand idly by while people are “unlawfully terrorized,” announcing plans to hold an event to address the situation.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka confirmed in a statement that the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a business establishment in the city.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, members of the city council, and state and federal representatives held a news conference Friday morning about what the mayor is calling a “raid” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at a business there on Thursday.
Mayor Ras Baraka said he was "appalled" and "angry" and blasted ICE for also detaining U.S. citizens, including a veteran. ICE said citizens may be questioned during an investigation.
In a statement, Mayor Ras Baraka said ICE had "raided" a business and detained "undocumented residents, as well as citizens, without producing a warrant."
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said federal immigration agents conducted a warrantless raid at a Newark business and detained both U.S. citizens and undocumented
After a raid at a business in Newark, reportedly without a warrant, here's what to know about ICE and immigration enforcement in America.
Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka said Friday he was appalled by news of an ICE raid at a work site in his city. CBS News correspondent Adam Yamaguchi has more.
NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Newark's mayor and a Democratic congresswoman for the district hit out at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after they said agents raided a business in the New Jersey City to detain undocumented residents without producing a warrant.