Newark mayor arrested at ICE facility for alleged trespassing

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, a gubernatorial candidate, was arrested during a chaotic scene involving protesters, members of Congress and federal agents at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, a gubernatorial candidate in New Jersey, was arrested Friday on trespassing charges during a chaotic scene involving protesters, members of Congress and federal agents at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility.

Alina Habba, the interim U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, said in a post on X that the Democratic mayor trespassed and “ignored multiple warnings from Homeland Security” officials to “remove himself from the ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey this afternoon.”

“He has willingly chosen to disregard the law. That will not stand in this state,” Habba added.

Images provided by Baraka’s office showed the mayor being escorted by federal law enforcement agents with his hands behind his back.

He was released from custody Friday night.