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Yahoo
15-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Jersey Kebab ICE raid: NJ officials speak out against system that detained couple
The Brief The New Jersey woman detained by immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, or ICE, is home with her family. But the fight to keep her here in the United States continues. HADDON TOWNSHIP, N.J. - Two weeks ago, ICE agents raided a Haddon Township restaurant and took a husband and wife out in handcuffs. Both are back home, but their family says they still have a long way to go until the ordeal is over. The backstory Celal and Emine Emanet, owners of Jersey Kebab in Haddon Township, were arrested on February 25, 2025 during an ICE raid. Celal was released with an ankle monitor while Emine was sent to a detention center in Elizabeth. She was released on bond March 12. What they're saying The Emanet family is overwhelmed by the love and support of family, friends and even strangers. Emine said, "I'm so happy! They are my family and they all said welcome home and it touched my heart!" Customer Steve Barton said, "You see it on the news, but you don't think it could happen in somewhere where you live. You don't think that you'd be impacted by it, but I'm so proud of this community." System is broken Ever since they were detained, friends and customers of Jersey Kabob wrote letters on behalf of Celal and Emine to help keep them in this country. They've been waiting for word on their green card application for years, in a system that state and local officials say is broken. "There is a very real difference of a broken immigration system. The border issues we've seen down to the south and what we see behind us today – a huge difference," New Jersey Representative Donald Norcross stated. Mayor Randall Teague said, "I hope there is and there should be a path to citizenship for them. These are the types of people that we want to have in our country and we should be able to have them legally in our country." Dig deeper The couple's 25-year-old son, Muhammed has been shouldering most of the weight of the stressful situation and admits it hasn't been easy, "It hasn't been, I mean, to be honest, until you asked me, I don't really think about how I feel. But, then you know, somebody asks you, like, 'How are you doing?' You just keep moving, day by day." And, Emine couldn't be more proud and then spoke a phrase in Turkish, to which Muhammed translated, loosely, saying, "She said as she was my age, she was always outgoing, very outspoken and not afraid to say anything and always being an independent young woman, so she's like, 'I see my genetics in him.'" What's next Emine was supposed to be in court next week, but her husband's case isn't set for another month. Their attorney is trying to have both of them appear together so they can know their fate at the same time.
Express Tribune
05-03-2025
- Business
- Express Tribune
Huge quantity of smuggled US almonds seized
Pakistan Customs Enforcement Karachi has uncovered a massive smuggling of American almonds under the guise of beans, in which duty taxes worth over Rs3.6 billion were evaded. According to Deputy Collector Customs Enforcement Raza Naqvi, a tip-off was received that an importer named M/s AR Brothers was smuggling a large quantity of shelled American almonds under the guise of beans from Jebel Ali, Dubai, and transferring them to their warehouses. Acting on this intelligence, Collector Customs Enforcement Moinuddin Wani ordered the seizure of all incoming containers of beans. The Anti-Smuggling Organisation (ASO) team intercepted and seized two containers from Karachi International Container Terminal (KICT) that had been cleared via the Web Based One Custom (WeBOC) Green Channel and were being shifted to Rehman Warehouse, Falcon Logistics Complex, Hub River Road. Additionally, two more containers were recovered from Haroonabad SITE Area warehouses. Later, the ASO also seized two more containers at the KICT exit gate, which had already been cleared. Authorities revealed that a total of 155 tons of shelled American almonds, 50 tons of beans, 15 tons of various vegetable seeds, and 200 cartons of US-manufactured sling film were recovered from these five containers. The authorities registered a case and confiscated all smuggled goods.
CBS News
28-01-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says filming ICE raids is an "accountability measure"
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps have gotten underway at the start of the Trump administration, multiple raids in cities across the U.S. have been filmed and highly publicized. Newly confirmed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the purpose of recording the raids is to create an "accountability measure." "It's not a spectacle," she told CBS News. "This is our nation's law enforcement — judicial process. The scales of justice are equally applied to everybody. We want transparency on this. I believe that this is an accountability measure." Inside the ICE field office in Manhattan on Tuesday, the agency's ranks were enlarged by other agencies, including Noem, now ordered by the Trump administration. The plan was to carry out multiple predawn raids targeting undocumented immigrants with criminal records, with charges ranging from murder to theft to kidnapping. The short-term goal is 500 arrests over a weeklong operation in New York. One of the targets of Tuesday's raids was a Venezuelan national and suspected gang member wanted out of Colorado on multiple felony warrants for kidnapping, burglary and a gun crime, according to authorities. Around 5:30 a.m., heavily armed agents raided an apartment building in the Bronx and found the suspect and three other male associates. They were all handcuffed without incident. Three children were also found in the apartment, but their immigration status was not immediately known. Authorities will now check to see if they have a caregiver or if Child Protective Services needs to be brought in. The next stop was a residence less than two miles away. After some negotiation, the officers made their way inside, but came up empty because their targets weren't home. Federal law enforcement is working with limited help from the New York City Police Department because of the city's laws protecting undocumented immigrants. New York City Mayor Eric Adams, however, has been cooperative with ICE and DHS. "I talked to him on the phone probably four or five times last night, and how one of these individuals was so dangerous, and that we needed the backup of the NYPD to be there in case things went south," Noem said. Tuesday's Bronx operation required around three dozen law enforcement agents that yielded a handful of arrests. Noem said it's a ratio she's comfortable with. "I won't doubt what they need for support and backup," she said. Vice President JD Vance has suggested deporting one million undocumented migrants annually, a little under four times the number deported by the Biden administration last fiscal year. But it's not clear DHS will have the manpower to carry that out. "We're working on it," Noem said.
