ICE lured the mayor of Newark to a detention center and arrested him under false charges of trespassing.

https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/10/newark-mayor-ras-baraka-denies-trespassing-ice-arrest-lies/

This is the world in which we live now. He was standing on the sidewalk after being invited in, and they detained him. For all the talk from the MAGATS about weaponizing the DOJ, I'll bet we don't hear word one from them about this blatant miscarriage of justice.

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ElwoodBlues · M

Mayor Baraka was also in the company of three members of Congress. Despite their legal right to inspect the facility, the Congress members were denied access.

Members of Congress possess explicit statutory authority to conduct unannounced oversight visits to facilities operated by or for the Department of Homeland Security. This was outlined in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116-93), Division D – Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2020, Sec. 532 and re-affirmed in each year since, including Section 527(a) of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118–47), which stipulates:

None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Department of Homeland Security by this Act may be used to prevent...a Member of Congress...from entering, for the purpose of conducting oversight, any facility operated by or for the Department of Homeland Security used to detain or otherwise house aliens... [nor] to make any temporary modification at any such facility that in any way alters what is observed by a visiting Member of Congress... compared to what would be observed in the absence of such modification.

Interesting side note: DHS does have the power to arrest people. This procedure respects due process rights. However, what they usually are doing is "detaining," without arrest, and without due process.

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