Federal Agents Detain Dozens of Warehouse Workers in Woodbridge, New Jersey

Warehouse Operation in Woodbridge

• federal agents, including US Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Homeland Security, took dozens of people into custody at a warehouse in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey.
• 🚚 Chopper footage showed individuals being loaded into vans with their hands behind their backs.

Impact on Families and Workers

• 💔 Labor and immigration activists gathered at the scene, expressing concern that parents would miss holidays like Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
• 🏠 Children might return home from school to find their parents gone.

Case of Jonathan Bellow Cabrera

• 🇨🇴 One individual taken into custody was identified as Jonathan Bellow Cabrera, an 18-year-old from Colombia who had been in the US for four years.
• 📄 His mother, a US citizen, stated that her son has a work permit and is currently in the process of immigration.
• 📍 Cabrera called his mother to inform her he was at Newark's detention center.

Sabino Delben and Warehouse Operations

• 📦 Activists reported that the majority of those detained were packers at Sabino Delben, an international shipping company.
• 👥 Approximately 30 to 50 people were detained out of an estimated 200 employees at the warehouse.
• 🤝 The warehouse is a bonded facility, meaning it has contracts with Customs and Border Patrol, and agents were reportedly allowed entry without a judicial warrant.
• 🚫 A trucker expressed frustration over losing a day of work due to the operation.
• ⚖️ The trucker, an immigrant himself, sympathized with the detained individuals, questioning the rightness of immigration processes.