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The mayor of New Jersey’s largest city condemned what he described as an illegal raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at a local fish market, heightening tensions over the tactics of federal immigration officials.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said ICE agents entered the business without a warrant and detained three people who could not produce documentation, but added that some American workers were also questioned and detained, including a military veteran.
“When I received this information, I was horrified, upset and angry that this would happen here, in this state, in this country, that this would be allowed,” he said.
Immediately after taking the oath of office on Monday, President Donald Trump began taking steps to curb legal and illegal immigration.
The Newark action took place Thursday at Ocean Seafood Depot, a family-owned restaurant supplier.
Baraka said the Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures.
“Some clever men came up with that a long time ago and now it’s in the constitution of the laws we live under and no one has the right to circumvent those laws,” he said. “It’s a slippery slope when people think it’s okay to suspend the United States Constitution to make a political point or a statement.”
New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice Executive Director Amy Torres said her organization and others are providing legal support to those arrested in the raid.
She said the existing pathways for immigrants to enter the United States no longer exist.
“Roads that were legal on Sunday as asylum, the refugee resettlement program, DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals]TPS [Temporary Protected Status]today they are illegal,” she said.
“ICE has gone beyond what the constitution should allow, allowing them to profile our communities while making everyone else guilty by association.”