Newark Mayor Ras Baraka filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba and a Homeland Security (DHS) official, alleging false arrest and defamation ...

Mayor Ras Baraka was taken into custody Friday at Delaney Hall in Newark, which quietly started housing migrants detained by ICE this month. "The Mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, committed trespass ...

The Trump administration is preparing for a historic infusion of cash into the president’s sweeping mass deportation campaign ...

A federal appeals court overturned a New Jersey law that blocked private immigration detention centers, citing interference ...

When Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and three of New Jersey’s Democratic members of Congress got involved in a scuffle with ...

Organized violence against federal immigration agents represents an expansion of the “Trump resistance” into frightening ...

A spokesperson confirmed Mayor Ras Baraka was taken into custody by federal police outside Delaney Hall, a detention facility run by private prison operator GEO Group, in Newark. Stream NBC 5 for ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested on May 9, 2025, outside the Delaney Hall Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Newark, New Jersey. Baraka, a Democratic gubernatorial ...

Then in February, ICE awarded a 15-year contract to The Geo Group Inc. to run the Newark detention center. Geo valued the contract at $1 billion, which is an unusually long and large agreement for ...

The mayor of Newark was arrested Friday at an ICE detention facility in New Jersey where congressional leaders had scheduled an afternoon “oversight” visit.