Alina Habba, interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, said on the social platform X that Baraka committed trespass and ignored warnings from Homeland Security personnel to leave Delaney Hall, an ICE detention facility run by private prison operator GEO Group.
The mayor has been protesting the opening of the facility throughout this week, claiming its operators did not get proper permits.
In her social media post, Habba said Baraka had “chosen to disregard the law.” She added that he was taken into custody.
According to Fox News, along with the Democrat mayor, three Democrat members of Congress from New Jersey stormed through the gates of the detention facility, demanding they be allowed to conduct, what they called, an "oversight visit."
Reps. Rob Menendez Jr., Bonnie Watson Coleman and LaMonica McIver entered the detention center and were held up inside the first checkpoint, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News.
