Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Friday after gaining entry to Delaney Hall, which ICE opened as a detention facility this week against the city’s wishes.
Baraka and other city officials repeatedly tried to visit the facility this week to serve a representative of its operating company, Geo Group, over code violations, including refusing to grant access to the facility and failing to have an evacuation plan in place. They were denied entry.
On Friday, three Democratic members of Congress from New Jersey—Representatives Rob Menendez, Bonnie Watson Coleman, and LaMonica McIver—were admitted to tour the facility, and brought Baraka with them. After the mayor gained entry past the gate, the representatives tried to include Baraka in conversations. At least one of them was shoved by agents, and Baraka was subsequently arrested.
Video shared w/ @Axios of the moment Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested: t.co/Spvhs7LygX pic.twitter.com/AEUXmmSmbk
— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) May 9, 2025The acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey and Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Alina Habba, announced the arrest on X, saying that Baraka “committed trespass and ignored multiple warnings from Homeland Security Investigations to remove himself from the ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey this afternoon.”
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