The Raids… and the Resistance
Trumpland with Alex Wagner
NBC News
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What was it like here on the weekend? |
| 0:09.0 | It was empty. |
| 0:11.0 | Empty. |
| 0:12.0 | It's not like regular Saturday or Sunday on Ferris Street, which always is packed. |
| 0:16.0 | Yeah, people in the restaurant, people in the stores. |
| 0:19.0 | Family is always around here, but as you see right now, it's... |
| 0:22.5 | Yeah, there's no one around. |
| 0:23.4 | There's no one around. |
| 0:25.0 | It's a Monday afternoon in Newark, New Jersey's most populous city and home to just over 300,000 people. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm driving around with Rafael Chavez, an organizer for new labor, a group fighting for immigrant rights and worker protections. |
| 0:39.9 | The reason this usually bustling street is so empty during the Monday lunch hour, according to Chavez, |
| 0:45.8 | is because last Thursday, just a few blocks away, there was a raid by immigration and customs |
| 0:51.4 | enforcement agents, better known as ICE. It was really just a matter of where and when immigration and customs enforcement agents, better known as ICE. |
| 0:54.5 | It was really just a matter of where and when immigration and customs enforcement would strike. |
| 0:59.3 | And that raid at a seafood distribution company in Newark's ironbound section yesterday around noon |
| 1:04.3 | was nonetheless a shock and a stunning for the owner, the people who work there. |
| 1:09.4 | The raid happened at a local fish market. |
| 1:11.6 | ICE officers entered the back of the Ocean Seafood Depot and detained several workers, |
| 1:16.8 | including a United States citizen, who also happened to be a military veteran. |
| 1:21.7 | He was detained despite showing ICE officers his military ID. |
| 1:26.4 | As soon, we try to get there faster we can. |
| 1:29.8 | A witness at the scene called Chavez's organization right away, and he rushed over. |
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