There was a tense standoff outside the Delaney Hall Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Newark, New Jersey. It led to the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and a later warning from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that arrests of three Democratic members of Congress could happen.
The incident took place on Friday and involved Representatives Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rob Menendez, and LaMonica McIver, who were there when the mayor was arrested. The three representatives were at Delaney Hall for a scheduled visit to oversee the facility, which they are allowed to do under federal law, as reported by NY Times. The building, run by private prison company GEO Group, recently opened and is meant to hold as many as 1,000 migrants.
