Newark Mayor and top Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ras Baraka is speaking out following his arrest outside a New Jersey ICE facility on Friday, and the gleeful MAGA pile-on that followed. Baraka was at the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark on Friday,

American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey Executive Director Amol Sinha, in a statement sent to Newsweek via email on Friday: "The arrest of Mayor Ras Baraka by the Department of Homeland Security is a shameful escalation of the Trump administration's intimidation campaign against officials who refuse to do their bidding."