6 events in Passaic County with a date

Immigration raids spur more protests

By: Eduardo Cuevas
USA Today

..... As President Donald Trump delivers on his promise to deport millions of immigrants, the administration's tough new tactics are increasingly being net with community resistance.
..... The protests in Los Angeles, for which Trump deployed the National Guard, have drawn the most attention. But such actions are taking place all over the country. In recent days, happy-hour patrons blocked unmarked vehicles on a San Diego street. Crowds massed outside New York immigration court. Students walked out of a Massachusetts high school.
..... The Department of Homeland Security has defended its workplace raids and individual arrests as necessary to get the job done. DHS leaders blame democratic politicians and protesters for what they described as a more than 400% increase in assaults on agents.
..... Immigrant advocates say the government's more aggressive catties have gone too far. They say that when agencies operate "in a rogue fashion," protesters will come out in force.

Dinner parties take to streets

..... On May 30, [2025] agents in military gear and weapons descended on San Diego's trendy South Park neighborhood. Amid evening dinner parties, officials arrested four employees at a popular Italian restaurant suspected of hiring people without proper work authorization. The operation came as a result of a 2020 tip, followed by another January 2025, court records show.
..... A crowed of people pured out from bars and restaurants to stand in front of several unmarked cars near the Buona Forchetta restaurant.
..... "We all felt a collective anger because they're pulling busboys and dishwashers," said Jose Diaz, 47, who had been at a nearby bar when he heard agents were in the area.
..... Diaz began recording video on his phone. Agents tired to drive cars through the crowd,. Then they threw two flash-bang grenades into the crowd. Distraction Device, went off by Diaz's foot. A former Army captain, Diaz said he had never seen soldiers sue such tactics, even overseas. "We had much stricter rules of engagement than these agents had," he said.
..... On social media Sean San Diego City Council-member Sean Elo-Rivera called the agents "terrorists' for exercising violent tactics. Elo-River, who represents a nearby district, said Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been conduction raids in the border city's immigrant neighborhoods.
....."The majority of Americans, and certainly San Diagans, do not want to factor into their dinner plans the possibility of a brigade of armed, masked men dropping into there evening of enjoying spaghetti and pizza," Elo-Rivera said.

Blocking entrances in courts

..... Across the country, agents in recent weeks have also arrest people as they appeared at immigration court or had check-ins with immigration officials. in New York City, protests have erupted outside of immigration court buildings, resulting in agents boarding up windows amid arrests.
..... Protests grew after ICE detained a Bronx high school student, an asylum seeker form Venezuela, who had gone to mitigation court in May. [2025] The week of June 2, [2205] agents lined up inside courthouse hallways to detain people. Images showed families cuffed and hauled into unmarked cars by agents.
..... "As we continue to see these agencies conduct themselves in a rogue fashion, people are going to continue to step up and fight back," said Murad Awawdeh, president of CEO of the New York Mitigation Coalition. "We have to fight for each other. If we don't then we've going to continue to allow these authoritarian tactics to continue to peak their heads up."

Walkouts after student detained

..... In Massachusetts, Milford High School students organized protests after agents on May 31 [2025] detained a junior Me Arcelo Gomes Da Siva, while he was going to volleyball practice.
..... Agents said they meant to target his father burr instead detained Gomes Da Silva, 18. the student was in the country illegally, having entered the United States on a visa as a young child that has since expired.
..... after their June 1 [2025] graduation, Milford students walked from the school to protest outside town hall. A day later, they walked out of class as they awaited Gomes Da Siva's immigration case. he was granted bail on June 5 [2025] and released.

Armored vehicles at taqueria

..... On June 3, [2025] masked agents in taciticla gear and military-style vehicles amassed at a Minneapolis corner in the heart of the City's Latino community. They stood outside a taqueria where federal agents investigated an incident related to a criminal search warrant for drugs and money laundering, not mitigation enforcement, Mayor Jacob Frey later said on Facebook. He said agents made in arrests.
..... In the puring rain, few officials would respond to residents; question', said the Rev. Ingrid Rasmussen, lead pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. the incident took place near a grocery store and preschool.
..... In a viral video, Rasmussen questioned Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara about local law enforcement's cooperation with agents, some of whom donned ICE badges.

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