Key Highlights
- Old Bridge Township councilmember Anita Greenberg-Belli made the remarks during a Jan.
- 27 council meeting as residents debated immigration enforcement, local police cooperation with federal authorities and protests targeting ICE operations across the country."We have to recognize that ICE is not the problem," Greenberg-Belli said.
- "There are people demonizing them when they're doing their job trying to be safe." Greenberg-Belli argued that restricting cooperation between local police and ICE endangers officers, families and communities by forcing federal agents to carry out arrests in neighborhoods rather than controlled settings like police stations.
- She said that when local law enforcement is allowed to coordinate with federal authorities, suspects can be transferred safely without agents having to go door to door, reducing the likelihood of confrontations and minimizing risks to bystanders.
- MOULTON SAYS ICE COMPARISONS TO NAZI GERMANY ARE NOT EXTREME IN CNN INTERVIEW Old Bridge Township, New Jersey, councilmember Anita Greenberg-Belli forcefully defended ICE during a heated meeting, criticizing disruptive protests and calling Nazi comparisons ignorant and offensive.
