Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka and three congressional representatives, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rob Menendez and LaMonica McIver attempted a political stunt at a local ICE detention facility in Newark. Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested.
The intention of the group was to shut down deportation operations at Delaney Hall, a 1,000-bed detention facility used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of the removal process for illegal aliens. Baraka, Coleman, Menendez and McIver created a public disturbance as part of their stunt and trespassed on federal facilities.
As an outcome, Mayor Ras Baraka was handcuffed and led away by federal authorities as the agitated crowd tried to fight the police and federal officials. WATCH:
NEW JERSEY – […] The arrest followed a chaotic scene in the facility’s parking lot involving protestors, federal law enforcement officers and the three members — Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rob Menendez and LaMonica McIver — at Delaney Hall. The Trump administration reopened the 1,00-bed facility this month to house migrants amid a lawsuit from the city against the private operator, GEO Group, alleging it does not have the proper inspections and permits. GEO group has denied that allegation.
The interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, Alina Habba, confirmed that Baraka was detained.
“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,” she wrote on X. “He has willingly chosen to disregard the law. That will not stand in this state. He has been taken into custody. NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.”
The detention unfolded after Baraka, who is also running for governor, was apparently allowed inside a fenced parking lot at the facility and then later told to leave.
The three House members had been inside the facility and then came out with officers wearing gear that identified them variously as federal police, ICE and homeland security personnel. At one point, the three Democratic members, who had been seeking a tour of the facility, came out as authorities threatened to arrest Baraka. They all exited to a parking lot outside the fence where protesters had gathered.
The three members then reentered the fenced area, but Menendez quickly came back and warned Baraka that the authorities still wanted to arrest Baraka. When Menendez came to warn Baraka, he looked through the fence and told the mayor, “They are talking about coming out to arrest you.” (read more)
Are we sure that Congressman Bob Menendez Jr. wasn’t on a house hunting trip for his father?
Oh his daddy has a “Big House” – 11 years starting on June 6, 2025
How many gold bars did Jr get?
He’s the Beto O’Rourke of NJ
Menendez used Senate loophole to keep his ‘Cuban’ cash stash secret from taxpayers
https://nypost.com/2023/09/26/bob-menendez-used-senate-loophole-to-keep-cuban-cash-secret/
Me thinks Alina isn’t going to be very nice in charging him. Hope the trial is televised.
Popcorn!!
Always loved this woman….let the games begin. I’m sensing a reckoning coming; with Steven Miller’s today saying the WH was considering Habeas Corpus. It’s FAFO time….
So here is the good part. Think about it. Why did Trump put Alina in New Jersey?
Yeah, my thoughts exactly
Because she lives here in NJ and is part of a law firm in Bedminster? Lol Same town btw Trumps golf course is located
I’m loving the perp walks and want more!
I’ am luvin the ending of Alina’s statement with: “No One Is Above The Law!”
With this, she twisted the fully embedded knife they fell on themselves when the violated Fed Laws on Fed property,… and exposed their Hypocrisy of falsely condemning Trump with their illegal Lawfare the past two years, while trying to exempt themselves now for their actual lawless behaviors.
“Yes, Virginia,… Karma is a B*tch!”
They all should have been arrested J6 style. What’s good for the goose.
Protesters? No, we now know they’re government employees protecting their grifts.
C’mon, man! It wasn’t no stinking protest. It was an INSURRECTION!!!
That’s their fight? Meanwhile, crime skyrockets on their streets and their airport is a tragedy waiting to happen. Yeah, keep voting ’em in, folks.
(Damn, realize what I just wrote…they will keep ’em in office).
That’s true, Gunner, because I keep telling them they need to go f*ck themselves every day and they continue to do so.
Justice would be for the leftist showoff mayor to spend a few up close and person days with the fellas in a supermax
Y’know, I just become EMBARRASSED by “stunts” like this.
I remember: “Ellis Island.” Where LEGAL immigration candidates stood in line and fought for position. Whose grandchildren proudly displayed their naturalization certificates, and do so to this day.
Immigration: if you comply with the law, “welcome.” But: HUMAN TRAFFICKING has no excuse. And, please: “let’s not mince words.”
Don’t call these VICTIMS by “nice words” that excuse what brought them here. Nor those who PROFIT from it. Even if they hold high government offices …
This is the most ancient form of “man’s inhumanity to man,” and also the most … lucrative.
Why are you embarrassed, Mike? Are those corrupt NJ politicians your particular representatives?
The ICE officers represent our (national pro-MAGA legal citizens) wishes per the Constitution and existing federal Executive authority. I’m glad they acted in defense of the law in this video clip.
If I have misunderstood your lead sentence, I’m hoping you will clarify.
I was part of the firm that installed the *Wall of Honor* at Ellis Island. However, as a born a bred New Yorker, had never been there before.
Anyone visiting NY (or natives), should take the time to visit. Ferry rides take you and pick you up – easy peasy!
The Walls of the great hall are etched with immigrants who signed their names and left their feelings in writing for eternity….. Inspiring for sure!
PS – both sets of parents came thru EI circa 1900.
Oopsie – both sets of *grand* parents … :):)
My maternal grandparents, too. I have grandpa’s citizenship paper framed. If my siblings knew I had them… it was so important to him, folded in his bedside table. My aunt gave it to me along with his handmade adz, his shot glass and his razor. Treasures, all!
My understanding is that this will put him over the top to get him the nomination. Which will make it easier for the GOP candidate at the general election.
Alina Habba getting more done in NJ than Bondi & Patel in the other 50 states. The Mayor of Boston, and the Governor of Massachusetts continue to defy POTUS, and block ICE.
If this is the hill they want to die on, so be it.
Prosecutions? Still waiting.
Unfortunately, Bondi and Patel cannot publish what they are trying to do and give the enemy the clue. We will have to be patient. You have to be sure you have everything you need to win in court.
Cannot publish what they’re trying to do ? Nobody is asking them to publish info on what they’re trying to do , people want to know why all the people that committed felonies that we have had warehouses full of evidence on have still not been prosecuted . There is no excuse for that .
If I announce that I have arrested E F,and G then I have announced to A,B C and D I’m coming for them.
And I wonder how you feel President Trump did in his first four years in draining the swamp? Still there you think?
How about giving them some time. The President had 4 years and still working on it.
I disagree. The punishment isn’t jail time; the punishment is the process of engaging the justice and investigatory systems.
When was the last time a RINO Congressman, Prostitutor, AG did anything that required a Dem to hire a lawyer?
They are all Miss Lindsay Deep State Comfort Women.
these congress critters went there with criminal intent. They need to be removed from congress. Fewer demonrat votes.
Yes! Quite true. I would love to see it happen. But we all know it will never happen.
Loved w hen these three went to the mic and the train whistle drowned their words!
This is so funny. The elite totalitarians are so ignorant that they don’t realize the impact of their antics. Every time they pull one of these criminal stunts, it hardens freedom-loving and hard-working Americans against them.
Keep up the good work! We appreciate your support!
It hardens them so much that they, the good people of this state are leaving in droves.
The writing is on the wall . The once great state of New Jersey is finished. The people living there just don’t know it yet.
Sorry to say I was borne and raised there.
Still live there but not for long.
Only still here for sentimental reasons that are slowly being distinguished by the daily onslaught of the local scum.
Democrats are so utterly insufferable. Juvenile pricks. You can’t help but despise them.
3 Black College kids (4th survived) in Newark NJ back in 2007 were horribly mutilated,tortured, sexually assaulted, using machetes, by illegal alien murderers from MS-13. These scumbag Uniparty Democrats don’t care about “Black Kids” they hate them as much as they hate every other racial group here in America, except now they are pandering to illegal immigrants/Hispanics at the present.
How soon they forget: Cory Booker and those schoolyard shootings
https://www.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2013/08/how_soon_they_forget_cory_book.html
“You might have seen this article in the Star-Ledger about how the City of Newark is declining to participate in a federal program to detain illegal immigrants accused of crimes.
Am I the only one who remembers those Newark schoolyard shootings of 2007? The leader of the gang that killed those three college kids was an illegal immigrant who was out on bail after compiling a record of violent crimes.”
“I recall going to a press conference back then when Mayor Cory Booker and then-Gov. Jon Corzine cried crocodile tears over the fate of those poor, innocent kids – but did nothing to change the law that permitted the tragedy.”
What a travesty.
Couz, to hear and see what Newark once was to this is chilling. This is an example of what some of my Black American MAGA friends see, they are being thrown under the bus as the KKK Democrats now pander to Illegal Immigrants/Hispanics/criminals etc
I remember that; happened not too far from where I live.
I know the area well ma’am. They are destroying surrounding towns
The MS-13 Massacre Corey Booker Does Not Want Black America to Remember
When Illegal Immigrants Kill Black People, The Media Look Away
https://jackcashill.substack.com/p/the-ms-13-massacre-corey-booker-does
Lady in red needs arrested for interfering, and assaulting police.
And Removed from Congress for her felonies,…. ain’t that right, Speaker Johnson???
Don’t bother the Speaker – he’s trying to sleep.
Let’s help destroy Ras Baraka’s Gubernatorial campaign. This poem by his father should help do it
In Newark, Amiri Baraka recites infamous poem again, this time to applause
https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2010/10/in-newark-amiri-baraka-recites-infamous-poem-again-this-time-to-applause-067619
I live in NJ. Baraka maybe did this to raise his profile in the Dem primary but he really is not a top candidate even among Democrats here.
With all due respect I agree but did you read the poem?
This is the kind of disruption that should have taken place during the j6 witch trials.
ICE Agents arrested an illegal alien in Worcester MA and the locals created a big disturbance.
https://www.facebook.com/masslive/videos/1753501048901991
Red Meat for Alina the Habba.
Think.
Why was Habba moved to NJ?
Past predicts future.
Hubba Hubba Habba! 👀🥰
These nutty extremists want to be arrested!
They remember President Trump’s “Mug Shot”.
They remember how popular he became with every indictment.
This is one of their strategies today.
Harboring, fighting for and protecting illegal aliens is apparently the Hill that these crazy-eyed dems are planning on dying on. Seriously!
Yes, they are that mentally deranged and should never be near a position of power.
Enforce the Law, regardless of who it is because (as we have heard since 2015) “No One is Above the Law”….
The Summer of Love coalition for this summer’s riots are coming into focus.
Illegals and GeeHadees, toss in the crayon box of sexual deviants for good measure
By their own definition, wouldn’t these folks be considered insurrectionists?
Yes.
What are the odds he will be treated like a J6er and denied bail?
Good work! No one is above the law! Get it you idiot Dems. The tide is turning.
I am old enough to remember when a few congress people tried to enter the Washington DC prison to check on the conditions of the Americans swept up in the January 6, 2020, entrapment operation and were told it was off limits. I don’t seem to remember those congress people breaking the law to break into the DC prison.
The demoncrats with their drama and tantrums are getting tiresome.
Insurrection!
They got to be J6ers.
They should have taken Bonnie too.
We already hays a Barak as President and do not need a Baraka again. Enough with the prophet Mohammed’s horse.
Horse’s a** is more like it.
Wasn’t this an Insurrection? Fighting cops/ice officers? Trespassing on fed property
One sentence, send Ras Baraka to Guantanamo.
Is it too early to send him to Alcatraz?
There are citizens and then there are inhabitants. The inhabitants are the ones you see on the news.
Born and raised in New Jersey and a former prosecutor in Newark here. Before you had Seattle and Portland, there was Newark New Jersey. Corruption on steroids. Race hustle 101. They wrote the playbook.
A real war zone for decades now. Went there on Biz in ’88,… Never going back.
We have to be careful. There must be some strategy other than stupid ignorance
I am glad to see us responding though and arresting clear criminals
I believe the “strategy” is quite simple. Dems: we know we have no good policies &therefor no good purpose to exist as a party, and while it was shits & giggles for a while as we laughed our ass*es off behind closed doors, our white-guilt power base is dying off and no longer reproducing…*plus* the pets (them, not me) have gotten wiser, as have our opponents. All of which means, if we can’t cheat, we can’t win. 12 – 25 million new census respondents yields a minimum of 20 seats added to the House, not to mention the dependency upon democrat ‘gimme dats’ for the first 4 years.
In sum, the strategy is making these criminal deportees their first line of defendants. IF they can be effective here, then they’ll have a cake walk giving non-violents voting rights with a side of amnesty.
A toxically-polluted, overcrowded, corrupt abomination snarled by hostile aggressive traffic using overpacked crumbling roadways and rusting infrastructure, with sparse blighted vegetation, trash everywhere, and lots of tall fencing topped with sharp-edged spikes.
Yep. Eastern NJ. Been there.
This is why the administration needs to suspend habeas corpus.
If a J6 protester can be held indefinitely without charges and then be sentenced to years in prison on a misdemeanor, I say “Goose, meet the sauce”.
they ALL should have been arrested and held for 4 years with no charges and no bail
Letitia James was not available for comment regarding no one being above the law.
If security had invited them in, they could have been charged and incarcerated just like the J6’s. Opportunity missed; maybe next time.
Hey liberal mayor NO one avoid The law,
Should have been more arrests, including sitting members of Congress, if actual charges could reasonably be proven.
You can take the protester out of the jungle, but you can’t take the jungle out of the protester.
We have become the jungle.
MAGA.
Jersey is a sham-run State. Has been for years. Their undereducated, angry people are easily led.
Too bad, because NJ is actually a beautiful Statee, kinda’ like the California of the right coast.
Book’em Danno, then toss em in the hole.
I feel that this congresswoman is actually Keenan Thompson from Saturday Night Live..