ICE denies targeting Union City church after arrest goes viral

🚨ICE arrests outside Union City church spark outrage

🚨The Department of Homeland Security denies the church was targeted

🚨Agents followed a vehicle for a mile before it stopped at the church, ICE said

UNION CITY — The Department of Homeland Security vehemently denies that ICE agents targeted a church on Sunday.

Video shared online shows ICE agents taking two individuals into custody outside a church on 19th Street. The detainees were taken away in separate vehicles. A DEA agent was also seen in the video.

Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said Monday night that the agents conducted a targeted surveillance for a mile before stopping a vehicle near the church but the church itself was not the target…

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