U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided a business in Newark on Thursday, Jan. 23, in which Mayor Ras Baraka said undocumented residents and citizens were detained without a warrant. One was a U.

New Jersey public officials are raising questions after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers raided a Newark business on Thursday just days into President Donald Trump's second administration.

The Trump administration announced Friday it will expand a fast-track deportation authority nationwide, allowing immigration officers to deport migrants without appearing before a judge.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka condemned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions on Friday following a raid conducted “without a warrant” at Ocean Seafood Depot in Newark’s Ironbound section.

Jan. 26 The administration said arrests could pick up quickly: The Washington Post reports ICE officials have been told to aim for 1,200 to 1,500 daily arrests, including at least 75 arrests by each of the agency’s roughly two dozen field offices.

"Today, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided a local establishment in the City of Newark, detaining undocumented residents as well as citizens, without producing a warrant.

Tensions are high after Newark ... Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. In just the first week of his new administration, Trump has declared a national border emergency and has directed the ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who showed up at the business Thursday detained three “undocumented residents” as well as some U.S. citizens.

The number of arrests in the first three days of Trump’s presidency represents about 1.1% of total arrests made by ICE in FY 2024. Then, there were about 310 average daily arrests. That average is now about 433 per day — a number that will likely grow.

Four months ago, then-presidential nominee Donald Trump repeatedly told his supporters a baseless lie that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating residents’ pets.

A Princeton sociologist said since the U.S. didn't welcome those fleeing Cold War–era regimes, "churches [and] synagogues declared themselves to be a sanctuary to refugees."

Reports of immigrants raids are on the rise in parts of the tri-state following efforts by the Trump administration to focus on mass deportations upon his return to the White House. Days after an ICE operation at a seafood market in Newark,