By Siddharth Cavale and Nicholas P. Brown

NEW YORK/NEWARK (Reuters) -In Newark’s heavily Latino Ironbound district, Rosa Ludena works the register of the electronics shop she’s owned since 2003.

A wall of phone cases appears on display behind her, but few shoppers are around to buy them. Traffic has slowed, and some of her customers have told her they fear leaving the house due to a spate of high-profile anti-immigration raids championed by U.S. President Donald Trump. Those actions – including a headline-grabbing raid of a fish market in January a few blocks from her store – have scared people into doing more shopping online, Ludena said.

“In this area, it’s a lot of Hispanics, and they are afraid to go out because of immigration raids,” says Ludena, 51, a U.S. citizen who emigrated fr

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