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Jilly_in_VA

(11,411 posts)
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 11:56 AM Friday

Mayor Rages as Trump's Much-Hyped ICE Raids Nab U.S. Vet

A mayor claims Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested a U.S. citizen who served in the military during a raid just days into President Donald Trump’s promised mass deportation operation.

The ICE officers also didn’t have a warrant during the raid in Newark, New Jersey in “plain violation” of the Fourth Amendment, Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka said in a statement.

About 10 or 12 ICE agents raided a seafood wholesaler and restaurant on Thursday and arrested three people, including the Puerto Rican warehouse manager, Ocean Food Depot owner Luis Janota told PIX11 news. Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens.

“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.”

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

Working while Hispanic? Got it.

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Mayor Rages as Trump's Much-Hyped ICE Raids Nab U.S. Vet (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Friday OP
Passport "papers" underpants Friday #1
My son-in-law is Puerto Rican Jilly_in_VA Friday #2
Russian mobsters are gonna be OK. Kid Berwyn Friday #3
Another in person request for a passport. His quote actually made me laugh underpants Saturday #4
Americans are getting smarter. In 2008 only 30% held passports. As of today, 51%. ancianita Saturday #5
Waiting on my certified birth certificate from Ohio underpants Saturday #6
Good for you. I don't have one. Just a passport. ancianita Saturday #9
I put in my app on Jan 2 Jilly_in_VA Saturday #8
25 days total. underpants Saturday #10
Yeah, well Jilly_in_VA Saturday #11
Good point. My wife got hers Jan. 18th underpants Saturday #12
Fuckin wow, sounds like a nice tight lawsuit uponit7771 Saturday #7
I'm white, but my wife and mother in law are Puerto Rican NickB79 Saturday #13

underpants

(188,065 posts)
4. Another in person request for a passport. His quote actually made me laugh
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 08:55 AM
Saturday

I thought, who walks around with a passport?”

This from New Mexico
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143380564

Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents questioned a Mescalero Apache tribal member Wednesday and asked for a passport, according to Mescalero Apache President Thora Walsh-Padilla.
While this is the only incident we have been able to verify, Tribal leadership is actively working with the New Mexico Congressional Delegation to ensure that the rights of Tribal Members are protected,” Walsh-Padilla said in the statement. “To be safe, be aware of your surroundings, let family members/friends know where you are, and keep identification with you at all times.”

ancianita

(39,260 posts)
5. Americans are getting smarter. In 2008 only 30% held passports. As of today, 51%.
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 09:13 AM
Saturday

This totalitarian oligarchy is out to chip away at the American electorate as Elon's Starlink will continue to void votes in the next election as in the last.

underpants

(188,065 posts)
6. Waiting on my certified birth certificate from Ohio
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 10:02 AM
Saturday

Last edited Sat Jan 25, 2025, 10:52 AM - Edit history (1)

My application got denied because the birth certificate wasn’t the correct copy. 🙄
My wife got hers last week.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219919503

ancianita

(39,260 posts)
9. Good for you. I don't have one. Just a passport.
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 12:23 PM
Saturday

A state's sloppy record keeping is kinda nuts. When you were born the state messed up and now you have to wait for them to fix the problem they made. Good luck. At least you've got all kinds of other I.D. that corroborate your existence.

Jilly_in_VA

(11,411 posts)
8. I put in my app on Jan 2
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 12:19 PM
Saturday

Checked for an update on Friday. Feb 14 is the date I was given, This is expedited? Oh well. Just hope it comes through by then. And I look perfectly white bread but I'm not taking any chances.

NickB79

(19,721 posts)
13. I'm white, but my wife and mother in law are Puerto Rican
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 01:50 PM
Saturday

And our teenage daughter looks a lot like her mother, not so much like me.

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