Department of Homeland Security officials announced Saturday that additional arrests are likely in connection with Friday’s confrontation at the controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Newark, where Mayor Ras Baraka was detained for approximately five hours. The warning comes amid escalating tensions between federal immigration authorities and local officials over the recently reopened detention center.
In a Saturday morning interview, DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin stated that “there will likely be more arrests coming” after Friday’s incident at Delaney Hall detention center, which resulted in the mayor being charged with trespassing, according to NewsNation.
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Conflicting Accounts of the Incident
The circumstances surrounding Mayor Baraka’s arrest remain disputed, with federal officials and congressional representatives offering contradictory versions of events. McLaughlin claimed that bodycam footage showed members of Congress “assaulting” and “body-slamming” ICE officers during the confrontation, allegations the lawmakers vehemently deny.
According to DHS, “a group of protestors, including two members of the U.S. House of Representatives, stormed the gate and broke into the detention facility” as a bus carrying detainees was entering. However, Representatives Bonnie Watson Coleman, LaMonica McIver, and Robert Menendez Jr., who were present during the incident, have strongly disputed this characterization…