(9 May 2025)
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Newark, New Jersey – 9 May 2025
1. Various exterior shots of Delaney Hall building, a federal immigration detention center where Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Baraka, wife of Mayor Ras Baraka:
"Mayor Baraka was arrested while he was there. He was the only person that was arrested, which lets us know that he was targeted to be arrested by the federal government. By Trump and Alina Habba basically."
3. Various of people gathered outside a federal building facility where Baraka was being held demanding his release
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Baraka, wife of Mayor Ras Baraka:
"They didn’t arrest anyone else. They didn’t ask anyone else to leave. They wanted to make an example out of the mayor and that’s why we’re here today. They have not let us in. We don’t know what’s going on with him. We don’t even know if he’s safe at this point. That’s why we’re out here right now."
5. Pan of protesters chanting (English) "Free Mayor Baraka"
6. Federal agents standing inside federal facility
7 SOUNDBITE (English) Amina Baraka, mother of Mayor Ras Baraka:
"He is the mayor of the city of Newark. I do not understand why you cannot be the mayor of the city of Newark and you arrest them for doing what? For doing what? When they tell me why they arrested him for, I would like to know. And I want him out immediately."
8. Various of protesters holding signs and chanting (English) "Who’s city, our city"
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Amol Sinha, Executive Director, ACLU of New Jersey:
"He was here with members of Congress, in their capacity as members of Congress, conducting oversight over a federal facility in the mayor’s backyard. So it makes no sense for the Trump administration to go after us because what they’re doing is in violation of, of the Constitution. It’s in violation of First Amendment rights. And, of course, the atrocities that are happening at Delaney Hall are violations of due process and the rights of immigrants."
10. Various of protesters outside federal building facility
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Amol Sinha, Executive Director, ACLU of New Jersey:
"The message for the Trump administration is that New Jersey will not be complicit in its atrocities and its violations of the Constitution. We’re gonna fight back and we’re gonna make sure that we are heard in the courts, in the legislature, and in our communities."
12. Protesters chanting (English) "Abolish ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)"
13. Federal agents behind fence looking towards protesters
STORYLINE:
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested Friday at a federal immigration detention center where he has been protesting its opening this week, a federal prosecutor said.
A crowd gathered outside a federal building Friday evening demanding Mayor Baraka’s release.
Alina Habba, interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, said on the social platform X that Baraka committed trespass and ignored warnings from Homeland Security personnel to leave Delaney Hall, a detention facility run by private prison operator Geo Group.
Habba said Baraka had “chosen to disregard the law” and added that he was taken into custody.
Baraka, a Democrat who is running to succeed term-limited Gov. Phil Murphy, has embraced the fight with the Trump administration over illegal immigration.
He has aggressively pushed back against the construction and opening of the 1,000-bed detention center, arguing that it should not be allowed to open because of building permit issues.
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