Dem governor backs ICE arresting 'criminals' despite vowing to use 'every tool' against Trump deportations

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement may encounter U.S. citizens while conducting field work and may request identification to establish an individual’s identity as was the case during a targeted enforcement operation at a worksite today in Newark, New Jersey,

an ICE spokesperson told Fox News in relation to Thursday’s Newark operation

Ras Barakanewark Mayor

The problem with this is that none of these people were rapists, or murderers or criminals,

Baraka said

Raids and attacks like what we witnessed in Newark yesterday does nothing to make people feel safer,

McIver said

If [Trump] thinks that we're just going to go to jail quietly, he's got another thing coming,

the mayor said

The immigration issue in Massachusetts has gotten completely out of control,

Sweezey said in a statement sent to Fox News Digital

Maura Healeygov.

Whether you’re documented or undocumented, you commit crimes, you’re subject to investigation and prosecution and accountability, and it looks like that is what happened,

Healey said, ... according to Fox local outlet, Boston 25.

State & local law enforcement cannot be commandeered for federal immigration enforcement. Despite what President Trump may think, he doesn't have the authority to unilaterally rewrite our Constitution."

She has taken to social media several times this week to express her anger over Trump’s immigration decisions, saying in one X post

I still remain opposed on efforts to target large swaths of an undocumented population who've done nothing wrong other than they're here without lawful presence,

she said

State AGs won't hesitate to respond if his threats become illegal actions,

she said

Some of the tactics could very well make us less safe, for instance, by making people in our communities fearful of coming forward and reporting crimes,

Platkin said

Everybody’s afraid because we don’t know if this is normal,

said the employee, who only identified herself by her first name, Eugenia

ICE has overreached beyond what should be constitutionally allowed. That is allowing them to profile our communities while also making everyone else guilty by association."

Torres added

People were fingerprinted. Pictures of their IDs and faces were taken there,

the Democratic mayor said

Accompanying returned compatriots with humanitarian support and the assistance they need, from the national immigration authority,

the Instagram story’s caption read in Spanish

The largest massive deportation operation in history is well underway,

she added

Ras Barakanewark Mayor

Some ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents raided a business in our city without a warrant,

Baraka told a briefing, adding

We knew this was going to happen, and what we learned from folks that stayed behind was that ICE walked in like it was their empire's own conquered land,

she said

This type of sterile language suggests there was deep intel … there wasn’t supposed to be collateral damage,

Torres said

I feel like we have to be a country of law, but we have to go after bad people, not working people,

business owner Luis Janota told local news network ABC7

Warrantless searches, jackbooted thugs, veterans detained,

she said