Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, a gubernatorial candidate in New Jersey, was arrested Friday at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility for allegedly trespassing.
His campaign spokesperson, Kabir Moss, said he did not know what crime Baraka had been charged with, but Alina Habba, the interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, said in a post on X that Baraka trespassed and “ignored multiple warnings from Homeland Security” officials to “remove himself from the ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey this afternoon.”
“He has willingly chosen to disregard the law. That will not stand in this state,” Habba added.
Baraka is one of six major Democratic candidates competing in the gubernatorial prim on June 10.
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