An NJ Advance Media reporter on the scene said security for ICE allowed the mayor and the city’s lawyer beyond the gates. The congress members were already on the other side of the gate at this time. However, none of the video released by the Department of Homeland Security shows the interaction.

Ras Baraka, the Democratic mayor of Newark, New Jersey, and a contender in the race to become governor, has been arrested for trespassing after refusing to exit Delaney Hall, a federally-contracted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility,

Unanswered legal questions remain as the Trump administration signals it might test the term limits of U.S. attorneys, sidestepping Senate confirmation and the courts. Those questions may lead to conflict between the role of U.

The Trump administration warned three Democratic lawmakers Saturday that arrests are “on the table” after they participated in a protest at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Newark, where the city’s Mayor Ras Baraka was collared.

This story was updated at 11:39 a.m. on May 4 after the White House publicly denied Booker’s claims. Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who is running for governor, was arrested at a newly opened immigration detention center in his city.

A man from New Jersey who claimed to be a church pastor is facing multiple charges alongside his wife after both were accused of sex trafficking and forced labor,

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Arrested Outside ICE FacilityActing U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba confirmed Baraka’s arrest, saying that the mayor “committed trespass” at the facility.