Story by Curtis Walsh – Beaver County Radio. Published August 1, 2025 1:11 A.M.

(Ambridge, Pa) A group of demonstrators gathered outside of the Ambridge Police Department Thursday in response to ICE activity taking place in Ambridge.

Beaver County Radio spoke to leading activist Jaime Martinez at the scene, who is the Community Defense Organizer of the group Casa San Jose.

Martinez described the events as ‘ICE terrorizing the community with help from the local police department and Sheriff.’

Martinez says they witnessed a “young family split up in an suv” and an individual taken into custody in the parking lot of Monroy, a latino supermarket. He also claimed that a police officer was caught on video raising his hand and saluting when being called a Nazi and that officers were grinning making arrests as others were grieving on the other side of street.

Martinez went on to say “People are trying to figure out what they can do to make sure this never happens again”.

Two demonstrators were said to have been arrested and taken to the Beaver County Jail for allegedly standing in place and waving signs outside the police station.

The activist group, Casa San Jose, was initially founded in Baden around 10 years ago at the Sisters of St. Joseph.

Those demonstrating were primarily from Beaver County and Allegheny County.

We currently do not have word on how many total arrests were made.

UPDATE 8/1/25 5:04 P.M. Beaver County District Attorney Nate Bible issued a statement Friday afternoon stating that the activity in Ambridge was a “saturation operation”. He says the operation involved numerous local and county law enforcement departments to make arrests of those with outstanding warrants and police any criminal activity.

Bible stated that while ICE was present and did take individuals into custody, the incident in Ambridge was “not in any way an ICE raid.”