Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba confirmed her office is investigating possible criminal charges following Friday’s unauthorized

An NJ Advance Media reporter on the scene said security for ICE allowed the mayor and the city’s lawyer beyond the gates. The congress members were already on the other side of the gate at this time. However, none of the video released by the Department of Homeland Security shows the interaction.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Newark Mayor Ras Baraka briefly returned Tuesday to the gates of the federal immigration detention center where he was arrested last week on trespassing charges.

This story was updated at 11:39 a.m. on May 4 after the White House publicly denied Booker’s claims. Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested while trying to inspect Delaney Hall, deepening the city’s legal fight with a private prison contractor.

The arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka outside Delaney Hall on Friday provided him with new political fuel — even as the MAGAverse was delighted.

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.

U.S. District Judge Evelyn Padin handed down the 48-month sentence in Newark federal court and ordered Hass to pay $3.5 million in restitution. “Walter Hass spent a decade failing to pay payroll taxes,” U.S. Attorney Alina Habba said in a statement.

We hope that the new interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, is the same Jeanine Pirro who ably served as a Westchester judge and district attorney for many years and

Ras Baraka, the Democratic mayor of Newark, New Jersey, and a contender in the race to become governor, has been arrested for trespassing after refusing to exit Delaney Hall, a federally-contracted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility,