The legislators of the Dem Congress rush at ICE facilities in New Jersey


The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, was arrested Friday at a Customs Immigration and Control Center (ICE) of the United States (ICE) where three members of the Congress also broke into the door of the installation, demanding that they allow them to make a “supervision visit”.

The mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, was arrested in the place by raid, the authorities said.

“The mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, committed a transfer and ignored multiple warnings of national security investigations to withdraw from the ice arrest center in Newark, New Jersey this afternoon,” Alina Haba, the United States lawyer for New Jersey, wrote in X. “He has voluntarily chosen to discredit the right. That will not be in this state.

The representatives Rob Menéndez Jr., Bonnie Watson Coleman and Lamonica Mciver, all the New Jersey Democrats, entered the Detention Center of the ICE Hall Hall in Newark and were held within the first control point, the spokesman of the National Security Department (DHS), Tricia McLaughlin, told Fox News.

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“These members of Congress break into a detention center go beyond a strange political trick and puts the security of our agents of application of the law and the detainees at risk,” said a DHS statement to Fox News. “The members of the Congress are not above the law and cannot enter illegally into the detention centers. If these members had requested a tour, we would have facilitated a tour of the installation. This is an evolving situation.”

Senator Cory Booker, Dn.J., asked that Baraka be released, while describing his arrest as “disturbing, unnecessary and indicative of tactics that undermine the security of our communities, do not add it.”

“The law agents should have broken down this situation. Mayor Baraka should be released immediately,” he wrote on social networks. “In addition, the decision of the Trump administration to reopen Delaney Hall, a private and for profit in our community, should never have advanced. New Jersey deserves better and the Trump administration continues to take measures to undermine the well -being of our residents.”

The legislators were out of the facilities with a group of protesters when the doors opened to allow an ice bus. The legislators then ran through the doors and the past security, said DHS.

Members of the Ice Detention Center of Congress in New Jersey. (X / @repbonnie)

At a press conference later, Coleman said ICE was “out of control.” McIver said the three legislators waited more than two hours to get access to the installation to make a supervision visit. She said the three were also attacked by ICE staff.

“There are people who are supposed to be official, who are supposed to protect us and have not done any of that,” Mclver told reporters. “If you can treat three members of Congress like this, imagine how people can treat people every day and every day, both undocumented and people who are citizens here in this country.”

Menéndez, the son of former dishonor Senator Bob Menéndez, Dn.J., said ICE officers in the installation performed an “act of intimidation” on Friday.

“We know what ICE has been doing in our communities. We know that the president lied and that this administration resides every day when they say they are going after criminals. It is not true,” Menéndez said through tears. “They do not feel weight of the law. They do not feel restrictions on what they should be doing and that was in the light of day today when they not only arrested the mayor of Newark, but when they put their hands on two members of Congress.”

The activists have demanded the entrance to the installation in recent days, saying that the GEO group, the new owner of the building, illegally avoids inspection.

“We are in Delaney Hall, an ice prison in Newark that opened without permission from the city and in violation of local ordinances,” Coleman wrote in X before Friday's events took place. “We have heard stories of how it is in other ice prisons. We are exercising our supervision authority to see for ourselves.”

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Congress members at the Ice Detention Center in New Jersey

Congress members at the Ice Detention Center in New Jersey (X / @repbonnie)

McIver said that “the lack of transparency around what is happening with the ice in this installation is unacceptable. People deserve dignity and we need answers.”

The prison currently has alleged murderers, MS-13 gang members, children's rapists, among other criminal criminals.

At a press conference on Monday, the mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, said that Geo Group is “following the pattern of the president of the United States who believes he can do what he wants to do and obscure laws, national and constitutional laws, and think they can do the same in the state of New Jersey and in Newark.”

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A lawsuit filed in the name of the city of Newark on April 1 alleges that Geo Group did not allow the entry to the security inspectors and violated the city's construction code, even by carrying out electrical and plumbing renovations without adequate supervision.

The National Security Department said that the accusations of Newark politicians that Delaney does not have adequate permission is false.

“We have valid permits and plumbing inspection, electricity codes has been eliminated,” said the agency.

Max Bacall of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.