Summary
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka criticized ICE agents for “raiding” a local business without a warrant, detaining several individuals, including U.S. citizens, a military veteran, and undocumented immigrants.
Baraka called the actions a violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unlawful searches and seizures, and vowed Newark would not tolerate such behavior.
ICE confirmed the operation was part of an active investigation, claiming they may request IDs to verify identities during fieldwork.
The statement continued “Newark will not stand by idly while people are unlawfully terrorized.”
Unless this means that the mayor and police chief agree to deploy Newark Police to physically stop and detain ICE agents, knowing damn well that a confrontation could end in a bloodbath, that is exactly what they will do.
People need to get it through their heads that we are entering a period of federal lawlessness. They’re hoping you only have the balls to challenge them in court where they can tie things up for months or years while they do whatever they want and consolidate even more power, setting progressively darker precedents.
Unless this means that the mayor and police chief agree to deploy Newark Police to physically stop and detain ICE agents, knowing damn well that a confrontation could end in a bloodbath, that is exactly what they will do.
Bullshit! It would absolutely not. Feds and local cops butt heads all the time, and never leads to a bloodbath, just bruised egos. Local cops would probably love the chance to be the ones to take something away from a federal agency.
I wonder what their basis for detaining people is…
They detained U.S. citizens and a military vet. Were they just detaining people because they looked like immigrants? Are they literally just detaining brown people?
I made a comment about a week ago on a post when they first said they were gonna do this asking how long it’ll take for it to go from detaining immigrants to just brown people. Guess we didn’t have to wait long, Jesus fucking Christ.
Yeah, sounds like it’s basically just: “AUFMACHEN!” followed by detaining everyone who looks ‘suspicious.’
Sounds vaguely familiar… something that happened in the past somewhere?
America’s going to riot again isn’t it
Can’t wait for them to start cracking down on business owners who knowingly hire illegal immigrants to not have to pay minimum (already criminally low) wages
Is this a joke? ICE is never going to target business owners and even if ICE did, they’d face no punishment.
Low hanging fruit for Democrats… they should introduce a bill with criminal punishment for knowingly employing undocumented. 1 month per employee, per year maybe.
Would be funny to see Republicans twist themselves up into a pretzel arguing against it.
Or Rs would pass it and now undocumented folks have an even harder time finding employment. Seems like playing chicken with the livelihoods of undocumented folks
I guess. But we need to deal with the issue one way or another, it only gets worse the longer people are here undocumented.
My preferred solution would just be a path to citizenship though. Especially for anyone who has children and or community roots. I guess we also need a robust visa work program as well, if we want to continue to pay low wages for certain sectors.
Absolutely. A better path to citizenship or even just residency would need to exist to avoid these kinds of abuses. But that’s obviously why the system is the way that it is. It helps businesses to have a broken immigration system, because it ensures a workforce that can be exploited.
Nothing screams American Freedom™ like police raids. Congrats, to all these Republican edgelords
It begins. 🙁
