Activists and policy experts suspect there is a new phase of the Trump administration’s deportation efforts in New Jersey after a rare workplace raid by federal immigration enforcement agents in Edison.

Personnel with the Department of Homeland Security took nearly 30 people into custody on Wednesday, according to Edison Mayor Samip Joshi, during the hourslong raid at a customs bonded warehouse at 65 Patrick Ave.

Immigration activists on the scene put the number of those detained at 50 and expressed concern the raid was part of a broader effort to target workplaces employing immigrants in large numbers — a tactic rarely seen in this region under President Donald Trump’s push to boost deportations.

“This may be the beginning of the promised ‘flooding the zone’ operation ,” said Muzaf

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