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PeaceWave

(1,348 posts)
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 07:07 PM Jan 25

Ocean Seafood Depot in Newark, NJ - raided by ICE agents on Thursday - donated only to the Trump campaign...

Eight contributions, ranging from $450 to $468, all to Trump.

https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?cycle=2024&order=desc&sort=D&zip=07105

Something here is indeed fishy.

https://www.nj.com/essex/2025/01/ice-agents-stormed-business-blocked-exits-while-making-arrests-in-njs-largest-city.html

Why would the first ICE raid of Trump's second term target an establishment operated by donors to his own campaign?

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Ocean Seafood Depot in Newark, NJ - raided by ICE agents on Thursday - donated only to the Trump campaign... (Original Post) PeaceWave Jan 25 OP
They'll have to "scale" back operations! RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Jan 25 #1
Oh...damn,that's bad! Bengus81 Jan 25 #7
The private prisons right outside Newark paid Trump more delisen Jan 25 #9
Bribes not nearly big enough to stop harassment. Irish_Dem Jan 25 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Jan 25 #4
Is there a NJ Private Prison Assn.? delisen Jan 25 #10
They aren't donors, those probably cost more to process dickthegrouch Jan 25 #13
I assume there will probably be no raids at Mar-A-Lago surfered Jan 25 #3
Or Bedminster where Trump had illegals working during his first Presidency... Bengus81 Jan 25 #8
I work in a factory in NY state where most of the workers on the factory floor are immigrants. Girard442 Jan 25 #5
Targeted a business in a Democratic area represented by Democrats bucolic_frolic Jan 25 #6
They didn't donate enough Bettie Jan 25 #11
Turning on their own and so soon too Marthe48 Jan 25 #12
You just can't reason with leopards who want to eat your face (or pay them off, evidently) . . . Journeyman Jan 25 #14
Maybe friday was payday. Easy way to get around paying your employees. Eko Jan 25 #15
No one expects it ... marble falls Jan 25 #16
Maybe ICE didn't know who they donated to. intheflow Jan 26 #17
I think most places that hire undocumented are Republicans JI7 Jan 26 #18
those fish are gonna rot on the dock onethatcares Jan 26 #19

delisen

(6,774 posts)
9. The private prisons right outside Newark paid Trump more
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 07:33 PM
Jan 25

We have an openly corrupt government and Supreme Court. We have an immigration problem but it is not the people who have been lured here by the promise of jobs . Or immigration problem is the Elon Musks and the Rupert Murdochs who have come to exploit us.

Response to Irish_Dem (Reply #2)

dickthegrouch

(3,922 posts)
13. They aren't donors, those probably cost more to process
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 07:55 PM
Jan 25

“Tiny” donations are probably an expense!
Rather than a net positive.
What’s that about not looking at gift horses?

Girard442

(6,508 posts)
5. I work in a factory in NY state where most of the workers on the factory floor are immigrants.
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 07:20 PM
Jan 25

From what I've learned going through the hiring process, it's unlikely there are many undocumented workers, if any. But...I'd be unsurprised if there was a raid by ICE. This is NY, where Alvin Bragg actually convicted TSF. Just for revenge, ICE could show up and toss anyone who doesn't have their "papers" into a van and harass them for a couple of days and scare them shitless. After that there'd be no more factory. Would you show up for a job where you could end up behind bars (or worse) even though you were squeaky clean?

Besides, what are the right "papers" anyway.? I have an NY driver's license. Is that enough?

Eko

(8,866 posts)
15. Maybe friday was payday. Easy way to get around paying your employees.
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 08:51 PM
Jan 25

Phone call to ice and no paying a bunch of people.

intheflow

(29,312 posts)
17. Maybe ICE didn't know who they donated to.
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 10:30 AM
Jan 26

Some MAGA could’ve had a bug up their ass after seeing migrants working there, unaware of the fact the restaurant donated to a man who promised to deport their staff.

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