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Liz Wolfe

Newark Mayor Arrested for ICE 'Trespassing'

Whose jurisdiction is it anyway? If you ask Ras Baraka, mayor of Newark, New Jersey, a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility operated by the private prison company GEO Group may have been violating city laws, having failed to obtain required permits and a certificate of occupancy. Baraka showed up with city inspectors this past Tuesday, returning the next day too.

If you ask Trump administration officials, lawmakers were "assaulting" ICE officers, even "body slamming a female ICE officer," according to Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin.

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