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Newark mayor sues DOJ for false arrest at ICE detention middle

Editorial Board Published June 3, 2025
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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in opposition to interim U.S. Legal professional for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba, alleging that his Might arrest at an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detention middle within the metropolis he governs was an act of political retribution.

Habba—who served as Donald Trump’s private lawyer earlier than she bought appointed to be New Jersey’s high federal regulation enforcement officer—stated Baraka was arrested on Might 9 at an ICE detention facility as a result of Baraka “committed trespass and ignored multiple warnings from Homeland Security Investigations to remove himself from the ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey.”

“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,” Habba wrote in a submit on X on the time.


Supporters of Mayor Ras Baraka rally outdoors the courthouse earlier than Baraka’s courtroom look in Newark, New Jersey on Might 15.

Nonetheless, Habba ultimately dropped the costs in opposition to Baraka, saying she was doing so “for the sake of moving forward”—when truly it was as a result of there was possible no proof to safe a conviction in opposition to him. In that very same announcement, she introduced that she was as a substitute going after Rep. LaMonica McIver, one in all three Home Democrats who had been on the ICE facility that very same day looking for to conduct oversight of the detention middle, accusing her of getting “assaulted, impeded, and interfered with law enforcement.” McIver is combating these expenses.

In his lawsuit, Baraka accused Habba of “acting for political reasons” when she ordered his arrest on the ICE detention middle. He added within the lawsuit that Habba was “fulfilling her stated goal of ‘turning New Jersey red’ by instigating and/or authorizing the false arrest of Mayor Baraka, a Democrat.”

He additionally accused Habba and the Trump administration of creating “false and defamatory” statements concerning the occasions surrounding his arrest, together with a lie that Baraka and “a mob of protesters stormed” the power and that he was illegally getting into the detention middle despite the fact that he was invited there by the proprietor of the holding middle.

“Today I filed a federal lawsuit against Alina Habba and DHS Agent Ricky Patel for false arrest, malicious prosecution, and defamation. They abused their power to violently arrest me at Delaney Hall despite being invited inside. No one is above the law,” Baraka stated in a submit on X.

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Baraka, for his half, has been talking up in opposition to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown—which has impacted the town he leads. In January, Baraka stated Newark residents had been “being unlawfully terrorized” by the Trump administration’s immigration raids, which he stated violated residents’ Fourth Modification rights in opposition to illegal searches and seizures.

He’s presently operating in a aggressive Democratic main for New Jersey’s open gubernatorial election being held this November. He filed his lawsuit the identical day early voting started for the first, during which he is going through a number of well-known Democrats together with Reps. Mikie Sherrill and Josh Gottheimer, Jersey Metropolis Mayor Steven Fulop, and former New Jersey state Sen. Stephen Sweeney. A latest ballot exhibits Sherrill within the lead, with Baraka tied with Fulop for second.

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