Newark Mayor Arrested By Federal Agents At ICE Facility

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested Friday at a federal immigration detention center where he has been protesting its opening this week and held in custody for several hours. Baraka was released shortly after 8 p.m. and, after stepping out of an SUV with flashing emergency lights, told waiting supporters: “The reality is this: I didn’t do anything wrong." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, tonight, a mayor is arrested at an ICE detention facility.
0:07.0	They said the administration weighs suspending habeas corpus for migrants.
0:11.0	Is a battle over deportation reaching a very dangerous tip-in-point?
0:16.0	Plus, the Columbia student detained during a citizenship interview
0:19.0	is now released on bond.
0:21.1	And he's speaking out.
0:22.3	He tells me why he thinks the whole thing was a setup.
0:26.5	And did President Trump just blink right before critical trade talks in China?
0:31.2	Fried Zakaria joins me to talk all about it tonight on Laura Coates Live.
0:35.6	Thank you. about it tonight on Laricoats Live.
0:47.6	Well, the battle over President Trump's deportations is hitting a dramatic new flashpoint,
0:50.2	the arrest of a sitting mayor.
0:53.4	Stop shoving. You can knock. Get off of me.
0:57.0	Get off of me.
0:58.0	Don't put your hands on.
1:01.0	Don't put your back in the hands on.
1:03.0	You guys, I know, I know.
1:05.0	That man in the brown jacket?
1:08.0	That's Newark, New Jersey Mayor Rosbaraka. He was detained at a federal immigration
1:13.1	detention center in his own city tonight. He's now been released after being charged with federal
1:18.6	trespassing. Mayor Baracka had been at the facility multiple times this very week, arguing it shouldn't
1:24.5	even be open because of permitting issues. But things got ugly today.
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