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Ras Baraka says he was ‘targeted’ by the Trump administration with politically motivated selective prosecution
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, arrested for trespassing at a federal immigration facility last week, compared his confrontation with federal authorities to the biblical King David's trials.
Democratic New Jersey Reps. Rob Menendez, LaMonica McIver, and Bonnie Watson Coleman were at the facility with Baraka to protest the ICE prison.
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.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka's arrest at Delaney Hall protest highlights New Jersey's political divide on immigration, amid a heated gubernatorial race.