Baraka was allegedly trying to get inside the facility, but the mayor said later he was arrested after leaving. Members of Congress, by law, can visit immigrant detention facilities unannounced.

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., speaks with an officer demanding she be let into the ICE Detention office after the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Friday, May 9, 2025, in Newark, N.J.

Baraka and a city fire official were at the facility earlier Friday morning around 7 a.m. to deliver summonses to the GEO Group and left. They’ve accused the group, which is contracted by ICE ...

Federal officials on Friday arrested Ras J. Baraka, the mayor of Newark, after a confrontation that also involved three members of Congress at a new immigration detention facility that is expected ...

Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark and a candidate for New Jersey governor, appeared in federal court on Thursday, nearly a week after he was charged with trespassing. By Luis Ferré-Sadurní and ...