NEWARK, N.J. (PIX11) — Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was taken into custody by homeland security at an ICE facility in New Jersey on Friday afternoon, according to Alina Habba, the Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey.
“The Mayor of Newark, Ras 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,” read the social media post from Habba.
Baraka is being held at the ICE Newark field office.
This is a developing story please check back for updates.
As I understand it, GEO and ICE are claiming the local officials have no business inspecting the private facilities. They believe they are beyond state inspection laws, and will only answer only to ICE regarding conditions.
Shiiit, who do they think they are, a fortune 500 company?
Sarcasm aside, it’s completely ridiculous. Even the big guys play nice with the fire service because nobody wants to get fucked by the insurance companies. I think the next step here would be to notify the GEO group’s insurers that they have multiple fire safety violations and they’re refusing to fix them.
Brilliant suggestion.
If this was federal land with a federal building I could imagine some legal opinion that lets them be fire traps outside the jurisdiction of the city, but just because the federal government leases a facility doesn’t make it then an exclusively federal building.