UNITED STATES –
The mayor of Newark denounces arrests of undocumented
Newark mayor, a major city in the suburbs of New York, criticized expulsion of illegal immigrants on Friday.
The mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, Newark, January 24, 2025.
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The mayor of a big town in the suburbs of New York denounced a police operation the day before against illegal immigrants on Friday – and according to him an American national – while the White House depicts its policy of expulsion undocumented across the country.
“The Trump administration arrested 538 illegal criminal migrants” between Wednesday and Thursday evening in the United States, announced the presidence spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, some of whom in Newark, industrial city and New Jersey dormitory, 25 Km of Manhattan.
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She also welcomed that “hundreds” of these undocumented people were expelled, using Pentagon planes for the first time.
“An alleged terrorist”
The Federal Agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed this figure, including 373 people placed in detention – among which, according to Karoline Leavitt, “an alleged terrorist, four members of the Venezuelan gang Tren Aragua and several illegals condemned for crimes minors’ sexuals ”.
Friday, the mayor of Newark Ras Baraka denounced in front of the press a night raid led by police officers in an industrial fish.
“ICE agents intervened in a trade in our city without a mandate,” deplored Ras Baraka by criticizing the arrest, according to him, a veteran of American nationality.
-A city called “sanctuary”
“The problem is that none of these people is a rapist, a murderer or a criminal,” added the first magistrate of this so -called “sanctuary” city, like New York. In these localities, the illegal immigrants benefit from local police protection against an arrest at home, office, school, church or hospital by government federal authorities.
In Newark, “they embarked three types […] of the equator, I believe […] Everyone is afraid, ”said someone who attended the Ice raid but who did not give his name on NBC television.
Republican President Donald Trump promised to expel “millions” immigrants in an irregular situation. Invested on Monday, he signed a series of decrees intended to stop the arrival of these people mainly via the southern border with Mexico.
“The greatest mass expulsion operation in history”
If the White House prides itself on having launched “the greatest mass expulsion operation in history”, the human rights organization American Immigration Council has castigated “a pure propaganda operation”.
“Last year and in previous years there were already dozens of expulsion flights each week,” his expert Aaron Reichlin-Melnick wrote.
And as a comparison, during the budget year 2024 (from October to the end of September), under the chairmanship of the Democrat Joe Biden, the border police had expelled 271,000 undocumented migrants, an average of 742 people per day.
These people in an irregular situation, who greatly contribute to a number of economic sectors, are some 11 million in the United States, according to the Bureau of Statistics of the Ministry of Internal Security.
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