Selected southern leaders Jersey stood on Thursday to Turkish immigrants from the popular Haddon Township restaurant, organizing a press conference outside Jersey Kebab to condemn the arrest of a couple by ice agents.
“Pray for us, pray for us,” begged the 51 -year -old owner of Eatery Celal Emanet, who was released from ice custody at the end of Tuesday after equipping the electronic cube monitor. His wife, 47, is still in custody in Elizabeth, NJ
Meanwhile, efforts to support the family exceeded USD 250,000 on Thursday. The Chapter of the Council for American-Islamic Relations in New Jersey condemned the arrest and called for immediate release of Emine Emanet, just like New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice.
ICE officials in Newark did not answer questions about the case for the second day in a row.
On Thursday afternoon, in a gray drizzle, which reflected the gloomy interior of a closed restaurant, Celal Emanet described as depressed when he asked questions from news reporters.
Emanet said that he was unable to talk to his wife on Thursday, and he remained concerned about her prosperity. He talks about a narrow English language and she was never in the courtroom or a policeman did not turn to them, and even more locked in prison, he said.
Their son, the head of the Muhammed Emanet restaurant, said that an immigration interrogation, at which he hopes that a deposit could be established and his mother is probably released in a few weeks.
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The couple legally introduced to the United States in 2008, but fell out of status when these visas expired. Anyone who is in the United States without a legal authority can be arrested and deported at any time. The family claims that they were constantly looking for a legal constant residence, but they were refused at least three times and waited for nine years for the government’s decision regarding her last application.
“We could not ask for better people in our community”, the mayor of Haddon Township Randall Teague said about 25 fans, activists and reporters of messages on Thursday. “The whole area is so bad and terrible that it can happen to such good people.”
Teague and other selected officials who talked, all democrats, said that they contacted federal educators in New Jersey who tried to aid.
Representatives of Cooper River Indivisible, groups of activists, plan to store Vigil before the restaurant at 12:30 on Saturday. When the political leaders gathered on Thursday, the group members stuck paper hearts to the restaurant windows, each of which wears a written message of support.
Commissioner of Camden-Refoliser Louis Cappella Jr. He called the arrest of the couple “outrageous” and said: “We consider it a personal attack on us all.”
“These people don’t deserve it,” he said. “These are good people. … if you are hungry and you have no money, you come to this restaurant and take care of it. “
Jersey Kebab is closed for an indefinite period.
Ice agents and federal marshals arrived at the restaurant on Tuesday in the middle of the wound, putting Cellala and Emine Emanet in handcuffs and taking them, according to the 25-year-old son Muhammed, who came to work when they arrested.
On Thursday, he told the crowd how the family came to this country as a stranger, not knowing anyone. Restaurants have changed.
“Our family, which is our clients, is really our family now because they see our deepest loads,” he said.
When he said, someone shouted from the crowd: “We are standing with you!”
Muhammed Emanet said that his father was a highly educated religious scholar and came to the United States after he was invited to service as an imam in a local mosque.
“My dad, he never got a parking ticket,” he said at the beginning of this week. “Now he walks with ankle on the ankle, as if he were a criminal.”
The family entered the United States legally, entering the R1 visa, said Camden officials in a press release. This visa allows someone else’s citizens a momentary arrival in the US to work as ministers or perform other types of religious work.
Celal Emanet submitted a legal stay, the so -called green card before the visa expired. The conclusions were rejected for reasons that were not immediately known, and the latest family application has been underway since 2016, the family said.
The arrests of Haddon Avenue, the main street that crosses Camden’s county, appears when Trump’s administration strives to implement what he says that it will be the largest deportation campaign in US history. Most Americans support Trump’s view, and most say in polls that people without legal consent should be sent.
Critics maintain that although Ice claims that it is directed to risky, criminals, he often arrests people who are not a risk for the communities in which they live. Observers say that pressure on arrests and an insurmountable numbers – ICE employs about 20,000, while 13.7 million are undocumented – causes the agency to work against migrants, whose only crime is here without permission.
In the Thursday statement, the executive director of Cair-New Jersey Selaedin Maksut called the restaurant’s arrest “an attack on a family that positively contributed to the local community.”
“Here is another example of a gross improper behavior on the part of ice-conflicting life that follow the rights of immigrants who have been waiting for their green card for years. Families and communities in New Jersey are torn. It’s unfair and dehumanizing. “
