Straight Arrow News
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation on Thursday, Jan. 23, at a business in Newark, New Jersey, sparked criticism from the city’s leaders. It comes as the Trump administration looks to launch some of its first major operations to find and deport undocumented immigrants in the country illegally.
Newark’s Democratic Mayor Ras Baraka, also a candidate running for governor, accused ICE of detaining citizens, as well as a US military veteran, while conducting what he described as a raid.
“Today, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided a local establishment in the City of Newark, detaining undocumented residents as well as citizens, without producing a warrant,” Baraka said in a statement Thursday. “One of the detainees is a U.S. military veteran who suffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation questioned.”