“I did not do anything wrong”: New Jersey mayor was released after his arrest in the ice center protest

Newark, the mayor of New Jersey, was released after his arrest by federal officials in a protest outside the city’s immigration detention center.

Baraka was reserved for five hours on Friday before he left at about 8 pm, The New York Times reported. “The truth is: I did not do anything wrong.”

Baraca, a democracy nominated for the New Jersey Governor, objected to the opening of the 1,000 -bed facility, which is part of the Trump administration plans to intensify the deportation of migrants. Baraka officials and city officials said that the center managed by the private sector is working without a valid job certificate. Federal officials and the company that runs the facility said it had appropriate permits.

Alina Habba, the American interim lawyer in New Jersey, posted on social media that Park has been subjected to the safe area of ​​the property and did not listen when Federal employees asked him to leave.

He was trying to enter the facility with three Democratic members in the Congress delegation in New Jersey – actors Robert Menendez, Lamonica McGever, Bonnie Watson Coleman – who said they had the right to examine the facility.

Parraka internal security official said he could not enter the facility because he was not a member of Congress, according to a joint video with Associated Press. Parka then joined a group of demonstrators in a public area outside the front entrance gates, where he was arrested by masked federal agents wearing military fatigue, according to the Times.

“What is happening now in this country, everyone should be afraid of it,” said Barka after his release in the Times. “They are using the courts. They use everything else to justify what they are doing.”