Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has sued acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba , alleging that his arrest during a May visit to an ICE detention center in his city was politically motivated.

Baraka was arrested on May 9 outside of the Delaney Hall ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey. At the time, Baraka was accompanying a congressional delegation conducting authorized oversight at the facility, but they mayor was denied entry. After Baraka exited the detention center and joined a gaggle of protesters on public property, ICE agents arrested him and brought him back into Delaney Hall. Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) was later charged with assaulting an ICE agent amid the chaos of Baraka’s arrest, in what McIver called an attempt to “mischaracterize and distort” her

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