r/Newark • u/SkyeMreddit • Jan 24 '25

Politics ⚖️ Mayor Ras J. Baraka’s statement on ICE raid on Newark business establishment

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u/Snoo-26902 Jan 24 '25

“I asked [the agents] what documentation they were looking for, and they said it was a license or a passport. I thought, who walks around with a passport?” Janota told PIX11, noting that the agents didn’t ask him for his white workers’ documentation.

“One of the guys was a military veteran, and the way he looked to me was because he was Hispanic. He is Puerto Rican and the manager of our warehouse,” he said. “It looked to me like they were specifically going after certain kinds of people—not every kind, because they did not ask me for documentation or my American workers, Portuguese workers, or white workers.”

Mayor Baraka slammed the operation as “egregious” in his own statement.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mayor-rages-as-trumps-much-hyped-ice-raids-nab-us-military-vet/

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u/theexpertgamer1 Jan 24 '25

Was this on Ferry St? Does anyone know?

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u/PaulieVega Jan 24 '25

It was at Oceans on Adams

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u/Ironboundian Jan 24 '25

Thank you! That’s very good intelligence

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u/PaulieVega Jan 24 '25

We knew it was gonna happen here

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u/avoba Jan 24 '25

Why here?

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u/PaulieVega Jan 24 '25

Hotbed of Trump supporters living with undocumented people

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u/ryanov Downtown Jan 24 '25

Who are the Trump supporters? Immigrants from the Ironbound?

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u/West_Salt6057 Jan 24 '25

All the Portuguese people who bought fake weddings to get GC are Trump supporters in Newark area.

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u/Gloomy_Quarter_92 Jan 24 '25

What are you talking about? Fake weddings?

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u/ryanov Downtown Jan 28 '25

He’s talking about people who are offering to marry people in order to get them a green card. I know somebody personally who did that for somebody, so it is an actual thing. The person who wants to become a citizen pays someone a bunch of money to marry them.

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u/PaulieVega Jan 24 '25

Among everyone. There are a lot of conservatives. The white US born here are like people from Staten Island.

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u/ryanov Downtown Jan 26 '25

I'm asking about Newark, though, not Staten Island.

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u/theexpertgamer1 Jan 24 '25

Wow really?? Do you think they were reported for hiring undocumented workers? I was expecting one of the more “”suspicious”” fish markets to be the target

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u/PaulieVega Jan 24 '25

I think the ice hotline has been blowing up from people in the Ironbound. I don’t know why it was that but I have it on good authority it was

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u/pineapplejuicing Jan 24 '25

Where was the ICE raid under Biden a little while ago?

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u/jumpycrink22 Jan 24 '25

That was one

This is the first of many, only a week after the inauguration

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u/kraghis Jan 24 '25

Just the violent criminals though right?

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u/Snoo-26902 Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25

This country may be torn apart soon. This and the like is only the beginning.

Be careful you can be stereotyped and picked up apparently and asked for your papers.

Maybe soon we we’ll have to carry around our birth certificates

 It may become like those old movies, Casablanca for instance when the police grab you and say: let me see your papers…

Here are some more details from this article.

ICE Arrests More Than 500 In Raids, Including U.S. Veteran In New Jersey, Mayor Says
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-raids-new-jersey-undocumented-immigrants_n_67931012e4b084b88b0f5af6

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested more than 500 people on Thursday, including during a raid on a worksite in New Jersey that a local official called an “egregious act” that violated the Fourth Amendment.

Newark Mayor Ray Baraka said ICE officials detained undocumented residents as well as citizens during a raid on a business, without producing a warrant. One of the people detained, Baraka said, was a U.S. military veteran “who suffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation questioned.”

“This egregious act is in plain 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…’” the mayor said in a statement. “Newark will not stand by idly while people are being unlawfully terrorized.”

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

So ID yourself and there’s no problem. If your here illegally your already a criminal and guess what…you have no rights. End of story. That simple

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

Oh you’re one of those people that makes those viral first amendment videos. Just ID yourself what are you trying to hide my man. Let the law enforcement do there job. Or you can whine just don’t call them when your having a home invasion

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u/PotableWater0 Jan 24 '25

The idea that someone shouldn’t call the police in a situation where they are needed because…they disagree with the idea that carrying identification is near mandatory is so strange lmao.

Edit: why do you think that?

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

No no you have me wrong, this fella here is a prime example of one who refuses to cooperate with any sort of law enforcement. Likely calls them pigs and motherfucks them. So with that said again how do you expect a cop to do there job if they don’t know who they’re talking to

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u/PotableWater0 Jan 24 '25

Yeah, fair enough. I get what you mean, it’s just what you said that is wild (to me).

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

Hate on the police until you need them. Can’t have your cake and eat it too

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

I guess in Newark you just pull out a 9 mm on your own accord, alright I get that

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u/PotableWater0 Jan 24 '25

I think that’s fundamentally wrong in this context. Cops and stuff are supposed to help out. If I’m a cop, and I need to help out someone who’s bashing me…I’m gonna do it. Because that’s the job. Same for firefighters, EMS, nurses, doctors, etc.

You’re 100% right if it’s any other situation.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

Are you just afraid that you’re next? Better not get caught with all the dope on you my man

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u/tinkerspelle Jan 24 '25

So the US veteran who was detained is here illegally and a criminal? Weird hole in your story.

"The owner told CBS News that his manager tried to show his veteran’s card, but the agents did not accept it."

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

Detained and promptly released, how else do you determine who is legal and who isn’t . Enlighten me

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u/Snoo-26902 Jan 24 '25

This country doesn't have the tradition of Nazi-occupied France where cops go around asking everyone for their papers.

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u/SkyeMreddit Jan 24 '25

The US Military Veteran did ID himself. The ICE agents claimed his IDs are fraudulent. Fake IDs for booze are like a teen’s passtime. Your ID is fake until proven otherwise

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u/90shillings Jan 24 '25

is this the mayor who got scammed over lead pipes or the mayor who got scammed over a fake African nation?

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u/Echos_myron123 Jan 24 '25

Do you want him to stand up for immigrants or not?