""If their goal is to stop counterfeiting, what they need to do is to stop the importation, which is somewhere else - it's not on Canal Street," Van Malden said."
""The executive branch policy used to be: 'let's get the counterfeiters off the streets, let's make the big companies happy.' Now their policy is: 'let's do these huge immigration raids and make the president happy,'" she said."
""ICE conducted a targeted, intelligence-driven enforcement operation on Canal Street in New York City, focused on criminal activity relating to selling counterfeit goods yesterday. ICE arrested nine illegal aliens"
Dozens of federal agents from ICE and other agencies fanned out on Canal Street, clashing with protesters and arresting at least nine people. The Department of Homeland Security described the operation as intelligence-driven and focused on the counterfeit goods trade. The operation featured masked agents and military-style equipment that appeared designed to shock bystanders. Enforcement actions targeted low-level street sellers of counterfeit goods rather than importation sources. Observers characterized the action as using a crime pretext to carry out civil immigration enforcement. The activity reflects a shift toward large-scale immigration raids prioritizing civil immigration arrests over building criminal counterfeiting prosecutions.
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