{"id":517147,"date":"2026-01-15T04:58:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/517147\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T04:58:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:58:27","slug":"morristown-n-j-community-fearful-after-ice-raid-outside-laundromat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/517147\/","title":{"rendered":"Morristown, N.J., community fearful after ICE raid outside laundromat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pastor in Morristown, New Jersey, says community members are too afraid to go outside after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/video\/rally-held-for-n-j-teenager-detained-by-ice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He said 11 men were detained by ICE agents outside a laundromat and a nearby restaurant Sunday, just blocks away from St. Margaret Church.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News New York contacted the Department of Homeland Security and ICE several times for comment, but has not yet heard back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s disgraceful&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Duberney Villamizar said hundreds of people in the community are suffering after the raid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have children, they have mothers, they have fathers, and they have an extended family,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>In Spanish, a laundromat employee told CBS News New York now, there are barely any customers.<\/p>\n<p>He said one woman came in with a heap of clothes to wash for other people, adding some residents are too afraid to leave their houses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s disgraceful that someone can&#8217;t even leave their home to do laundry, can&#8217;t leave to buy food,&#8221; he said in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>Villamizar said he&#8217;s told the community they can watch services online if they are too afraid to come in person.<\/p>\n<p>17-year-old Morristown High School senior among those detained<\/p>\n<p>Villamizar said 17-year-old Juan Mendoza, a senior at Morristown High School, was injured as he was taken into custody Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s in pain &#8230; I heard today that especially in the leg, he&#8217;s in pain,&#8221; Villamizar said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Villamizar, Mendoza was taken to a detention center in Elizabeth and was visited by his lawyer Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s trying to process everything,&#8221; Villamizar said.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/rozner-11p-pkg-morristo-wcbsgfcs-hi-res-still.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Juan Mendoza \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  17-year-old Juan Mendoza, a senior at Morristown High School<\/p>\n<p>                Photo provided<\/p>\n<p>Mendoza is from Honduras and came to the United States alone a few years ago, according to Villamizar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He came here every week for parish Masses,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s telling you something that his kindness in his heart. It&#8217;s very hard to bring our kids today to the church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mendoza&#8217;s family said he had an upcoming hearing to seek special immigrant juvenile status.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pastor in Morristown, New Jersey, says community members are too afraid to go outside after recent Immigration&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":517148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,2065,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-517147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115897349617901618","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}