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.

  • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 hours ago

    The scariest part is that every American I know personally has no idea any of these ICE raids are even happening, let alone that they’ve started detaining judges and mayors or what that even implies. Americans are so dangerously uninformed.

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      13 hours ago

      Americans are completely disengaged politically. Most are too busy consooming, side hustling or paying healthcare bills.

      The rest are getting their news from Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.

      I haven’t met a GenZ American that’s media literate.

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      13 hours ago

      This is absolutely the scariest part. We’re not going to have enough people to fight back effectively until most of us are already in fucking camps or dead.