Mayor of Newark Ras Baraka was arrested at the ICE facility when he joined Democrats to conduct ‘supervision’

Ras Baraka, Newark Democratic Mayor, New Jersey, was arrested on Friday when he joined a member of the Congress at the Center for Immigration Detention and Customs Enforcement, according to the US Temporary Lawyer for the New Jersey Alina Habba District.

Baraka, who is one of the six candidates looking for Democratic nominations for the governor in New Jersey next month, “committed violations and ignored many warnings from the security investigation of the homeland to move themselves from the ice detention center in Newark, New Jersey this afternoon. … He has been detained,” Habba in Habba this afternoon. claimed on x.

Baraka was charged with violating, according to a court document submitted on Friday night.

In a direct interview on Saturday morning, Assistant Secretary DHS for Public Affairs Tricia Mclaughlin said “The possibility of more arrests will be coming” after the Friday incident outside the Delay Hall Detention Center in Newark, New Jersey.

McLaughlin claimed the Bodycam video showed members of the congress “attacking” and “body reservoirs”.

Baraka appeared before judge Andre Espinosa at 19:15 on Friday for a brief preliminary hearing. Judge Espinosa ordered him to be released without ties, and no request was entered. He spent about 5 hours in detention before being released.

Violations are minor violations that carry a maximum sentence of up to 30 days in prison and a fine of $ 500.

A spokesman for the 2025 Governor Campaign Baraka confirmed in a statement that Baraka was “arrested and detained by Ice.”

“We are actively monitoring and will provide further details when available,” said the spokesman.

Member of the Lamonica Mciver Congress (NJ-10) said he witnessed the “chaos and cruelty that defined the Trump Administrative Immigration Policy” should be a routine supervisory visit in his district.

“As we have done before, we went to conduct a legitimate congregation supervision – to do our work and demand answers to our constituents. We met with insult, disrespect, and aggression from ICE. From the rough Congress members to show the mayor of our biggest city, no version said today that did not show a striking harassment about a striking power of the striking power of the strength of Trump which is striking from the strength of Trump.

“Americans must be angry – democracy demands transparency, not fear and strength. There is no agency and no administration can operate in the dark,” he said.

Baraka and three members of the Congress delegation for New Jersey – Democrat Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman, Lamonica Mciver, and Robert Menendez Jr. – Has go to the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility to supervise, according to Watson Coleman and Mciver.

However, according to activists and members of the Congress delegation, who spoke after the arrest of Baraka, Menendez, Mciver and Watson Coleman were allowed to be in the property of the facility while Baraka was not and was told that he had to go outside the gate.

“We have heard the story about how it feels in another ice prison. We use our supervision authority to see for ourselves,” Watson Coleman wrote in a post on Friday.

“As members of the congress, we have the power to conduct surveillance,” Mciver wrote. “That’s what we have to do here.”

Habba accused the telephone interview at Fox News on Friday afternoon that Baraka was in the facility and had been warned several times that he would be arrested but refused to leave. He was then detained when leaving the facility, said Habba.

“When you break the law, nothing is magnificent that will help you. The period, finally,” he added.

Speaking to reporters outside the Friday night detention facility, three members of the Democratic Congress who together with Baraka described when he was arrested.

“They left the property to public property and arrested the mayor … they haven’t told us why,” Watson Coleman said. “They just grabbed it and brought it, and we tried to make them answer, why did you lock it? And they began to be rather rude.”

Menendez said, “More than 20 armed ice officers with all brass from the Newark office” walked past them to the gate where Baraka was located.

“It is clearly intended to intimidate not only the mayor, but the three of us and everyone who watched today,” he said.

A challenging Mciver told reporters, “We will continue to fight. This will not stop us from the battle and do our jobs more than thousands of New Jerseye residents choose us to do it. We only do our work, and that has nothing to do with politics.”

The city of Newark accused the Delaney Hall detention facility of being opened without the right safety protocol.

The Department of Domestic Security said in a press release on Friday that Delaney Hall, which is a person who is operated personally with an ice contract to hold migrants, has the right permit and says immigrants who do not have legal status to be in the United States who have committed violent crimes were held there.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy criticized the arrest of Baraka in a statement on Friday afternoon.

“The Mayor of Baraka is an exemplary public servant who always defends our most vulnerable neighbors. I call for liberation immediately by federal law enforcers,” he wrote.

Assistant Secretary of Domestic Security Tricia McLaughlin claimed without giving details that elected officials tried to “storm” the facility.

“Congress members invaded the detention facility beyond strange political actions and placed the safety of our law enforcement agents and prisoners in risk,” he said in a statement.

Watson Coleman also denied the characterization of the department about their visits: “Contrary to the press statement issued by our DHS, we did not ‘invade’ detention centers. The press writer was not accustomed to the facts for the reasons we did in Elizabeth, we used Finong Offly Officing, we used Finong Offly Owning.

Senator Cory Booker, DN.J., who served as Mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013, said the incident was “disturbing, unnecessary and indications of tactics that damage the safety and security of our community, did not add it. Law enforcement officers should have approached this situation. Major Baraka should soon be released.”

Attorney General New Jersey Matthew J. Platkin said in a statement, “arresting public officials for protesting peacefully violating the most fundamental principles of our democracy. The arrest of the Mayor of Baraka this afternoon outside the Delaney Hall in Newark was very disturbing. People peacefully used their rights for freedom of speech and the assembly should not be targeted for the government’s opponents.”

He added that as far as his office knows, no state or local official was involved with the arrest.

“As gathered today to protest outside the Delaney Hall, my office remains firm in the defense of our state law which prohibits the Center for Private Immigration Detention Center in our community. We defend the law in the federal appeal court last week, and we will continue to defend our population civil rights,” Platkin wrote.

However, the Chairman of the Republic of New Jersey Bob Hugin criticized Baraka and called his actions as “action.”

“The arrest of the Mayor of Ras Baraka after committing violations in the Ice Federal facility and ignoring repeated warnings from the security of the country is unprofessional, careless, and dangerous. He is not only the mayor – he nominates himself as a governor, and this action shows exactly the leader he wrote.