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ICE conducts raid outside Home Depot; LA mayor accuses agents of racial profiling
The 'Outnumbered' panel reacts to an ICE raid outside a Home Depot in Los Angeles, where local leaders, including the mayor, have accused agents of racial profiling.
CBS News
23-07-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
Partner of man detained at New Jersey's Delaney Hall ICE facility concerned for his health
A New Jersey woman is concerned about what's next after her partner and more than a dozen migrant workers were arrested during a raid at a warehouse and taken to the controversial U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility Delaney Hall. ICE agents raided Alba Wine and Spirits in Edison on July 8 and detained 20 workers, officials confirmed. The woman, who did not want to use her real name and asked to be called "Vanessa," said her longtime partner was on the phone with her during a lunch break at the time. "He only said, 'Immigration is here. I need support ... Immigration, they come here with the dogs,'" she said. "'Please, I need you call my lawyer.'" She went directly to the warehouse parking lot, but he was gone. "The families was outside," she said. "Every family is crying." Vanessa said she met her partner while working in a warehouse before she changed jobs. She said he was allowed into the U.S. from his native Honduras as an asylum seeker with permission to work. Now, Vanessa says she is afraid to go to work, a store or a church. "The life right now is so terrible," she said. She said when she speaks to her partner on the phone, she can tell he is sick with a cold or flu. "He feels cold, he's hungry. The food is terrible," she said. "Everything is bad. Only have maybe a little bread." Vanessa said the best case scenario is that her partner will be freed at the conclusion of a virtual bond hearing scheduled for Monday. CBS News New York contacted Alba Wine and Spirits, ICE and the Department of Homeland Security about the raid and specific cases. Alba said, "No comment." "There will be no safe spaces for industries who harbor violent criminals or purposely try to undermine law enforcement's efforts," the DHS assistant secretary of public affairs said in a statement.
CBS News
17-07-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
Concerns grow in Norristown, Pennsylvania, after ICE arrests 14 undocumented immigrants at supermarket
Concerns are growing in the Hispanic community after Wednesday's ICE raid at a Norristown, Pennsylvania, supermarket ended with 14 undocumented immigrants arrested. Sharon Williams, who lives in Norristown, visited Super Gigante at the West Norriton Farmers Market the day after the raid on Thursday to shop and also show her support for her immigrant neighbors. "It's just very disappointing," Williams said. "We are very upset here in the greater Norristown area that we've been targeted, that our community and our immigrant community is being targeted." According to federal officials, agents were at the supermarket to execute a search warrant for 14 people, who they said did not have legal status to be in the United States. Ultimately, 14 undocumented immigrants were arrested, including six Mexican nationals, according to the Mexican Consulate in Philadelphia. Residents said the raids are making people uneasy regardless of their immigration status. "Folks who are full citizens either by birth or naturalized citizens have to be on edge because all you have to do is look the part," Williams said. Community advocacy groups in Montgomery County believe these raids are going to continue with ICE agents targeting spaces such as churches, schools, or, as on Wednesday, a supermarket. "People aren't going out to go get groceries," Andi Laudisio, with the nonprofit Indivisible Montgomery County PA and Friends, said. "People are nervous to show up to court because they are being snatched from court. So it's affected everyday life for all of our community members." Laudisio and her work with the advocacy group involves monitoring ICE activity in the area. She was also at the raid at the supermarket after seeing who she believed were ICE agents gathering at a movie theater parking lot earlier Wednesday morning. "ICE is intentionally targeting people on their way to work, on their way home from work, to schools, to graduations," she said. "These are not where criminals are hanging out." Laudisio and others have worked to give people a heads up about ICE activity in the area, but she believes the state needs to do more to help protect immigrant families. Laudisio said if people in power won't step up to help, the community will. "Who is going to do something? Not the government, not the police. It has to be the citizens," she said.
CBS News
17-07-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
14 undocumented immigrants arrested in ICE raid at Norristown, Pennsylvania, supermarket
Fourteen undocumented immigrants were arrested after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday morning, a spokesperson for ICE said. ICE said in a statement that federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations, the Internal Revenue Service and ICE conducted a federal court-authorized search at Super Gigante at the West Norriton Farmers Market on West Main Street. "During the execution of the search warrant, 14 individuals were encountered who did not have legal status to be in the United States," ICE wrote in a statement. "These 14 individuals were taken into ICE custody pending removal proceedings." Carlos Obrador, head consul of the Mexican Consulate in Philadelphia, said in a statement that at least six of the detainees are Mexican nationals. "It is important to point out that regardless of their immigration status, people have basic rights," Obrador said in a statement. "If someone is detained by immigration authorities, they have the right to request to speak with their consulate. The Mexican Consulate is prepared to provide our nationals with legal assistance in the event they require it." Unides Para Servir Norristown, a grassroots Latino advocacy organization in Norristown, said in a Facebook post on Wednesday morning that "more than 25 ICE vehicles entered our community with the sole purpose of intimidating and attacking our families." Stephanie Vincent, a member of the Community for Change Montgomery County, said the raid was the latest in a series of immigration operations in the Philadelphia suburb. "I don't think folks really understand how this is happening … I think the wider public probably thinks it's just Norristown, or just Philadelphia or just on the news in California," Vincent said. "But this is literally happening in towns in Montgomery County. In Ambler, in Bridgeport, in Conshohocken, in Lansdale, in Pottstown and also in neighboring counties. So, this is happening everywhere and people need to realize that these human rights abuses, the Constitution being trampled on is happening right here in Montgomery County." During the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners Meeting on Wednesday, multiple residents, including Vincent, asked the county to do more to protect its residents against ICE enforcement. "This is bigger than immigration," Vincent said at the meeting. "This is about the soul of our county." This is a developing story and will be updated.
Daily Mail
15-07-2025
- Daily Mail
California professor unmasked as protester who 'hurled tear gas at ICE agents' during pot farm raid
A California professor has been accused of hurling tear gas at ICE agents during a tumultuous raid on a cannabis farm last week. Jonathan Anthony Caravello was taken into custody on Thursday, with U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli claiming on social media that he threw a tear gas cannister at law enforcement officials who descended on Glass House Farms in Ventura County. Essayli went on to deny the California Faculty Association's earlier claims that Caravello - who teaches math and philosophy at California State University Channel Islands - was 'kidnapped' by federal agents. Instead, a criminal complaint obtained by the Ojai Valley News claims that after agent deployed cannisters of tear gas, Caravello was caught on body camera footage 'attempt[ing] to kick the canister' which proceeded to roll past him. 'Caravello turned around, ran towards the canister, picked it up and threw the canister overhand back at [Border Patrol] agents,' an affidavit says, adding that it 'came within approximately several feet above law enforcements' heads.' In the aftermath, Caravello allegedly left the scene - only to return a few hours later wearing different clothes, according to the affidavit. It also claims that Caravello was seen 'holding a microphone' at the cannabis farm when Border Patrol agents 'attempted to clear a safe pathway' between the protesters and government-owned vehicles attempting to leave. He was arrested just before 6pm, according to the criminal complaint, which states that agents placed the professor on his stomach on the ground and gave him 'verbal commands... but Caravello would not comply and attempted to grab a [Border Patrol] agent's leg. 'Caravello continuously kicked his legs and refused to give the BP agents his arms,' the complaint alleges. Witnesses at the scene, though, offered a different version of events. They claimed the professor was attempting to dislodge a tear gas cannister that became stuck underneath another protester's wheelchair when he was arrested, ABC 7 reports. Angelmarie Taylor, 24, also told the Los Angeles Times she saw agents fire tear gas after Caravello and others refused to move out of the way of agents' vehicles. At that point, four masked agents took Caravello from the protest site and placed him in an unmarked vehicle without identifying themselves, stating a reason for his arrest or disclosing where they were taking him, the California Faculty Association claimed. 'They didn't give us a dispersal order,' Taylor recounted. 'They didn't say anything.' In a statement, California State University Channel Islands said it is working to get 'additional information to fully understand the circumstances of the incident.' 'At this time, it is our understanding that Professor Caravello was peacefully participating in a protest - an act protected under the First Amendment and a right guaranteed to all Americans,' the university said. 'If confirmed, we stand with elected officials and community leaders calling for his immediate release.' Members of the California Faculty Association and VC Defensa, an immigration rights group, then hosted a rally demanding the release of at least 12 Ventura County residents - including Caravello - on Sunday. 'As part of our union's antiracism and social justice agenda, we show up for our immigrant communities, including faculty and students engaged in efforts to stop and protect our communities from the invasion of ICE, [Department of Homeland Security], National Guard and local law enforcement,' the California Faculty Association said in a statement. A spokesperson for the group also spoke up about Caravello's detention in remarks to the Coyote Chronicle. 'This was not just an arrest - it was a disappearance,' the spokesperson said. 'Dr. Caravello is a US citizen, a public servant and an advocate for justice. His abduction is part of a deeply alarming trend of silencing dissent and criminalizing compassion.' VC Defensa also shared a message on Instagram asserting that Caravello was 'defending the immigrant community and supporting other people who come to show their support. 'Let's be critical before sharing news that he was "violent,"' the immigrant rights group urged. 'We have so many witnesses that know he was attacked by ICE and assaulted for no reason other than he was in the crowd that stood against ICE. 'This is an egregious lie by the ruling class (as always!!),' it claimed. Still, Caravello is now facing federal charges of 'assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers or employees,' which can carry up to 10 years in prison if the offense involves a weapon or causes injury. He was released on a $15,000 bail on Monday, with an arraignment set for August 1. Meanwhile, Democrats have spoken out against the ICE raid at the cannabis farm, as they insisted the migrants agents were after were just children picking strawberries. Ventura County Democratic Party Chair Steve Auclair called the raid 'a military attack on our community,' Auclair said. 'First they came for the farmworkers. Now they're coming for all of us,' he declared. California Gov. Gavin Newsom even declared that President Donald Trump is 'the real scum' for conducting the nationwide ICE raids.
