Whoever is advising the Democrats to keep harping on the arrest and deportation of illegal aliens – tell them to keep going.

Absolutely nothing says “I care about my constituents” like rushing to defend illegal alien criminals. On Friday, three U.S. representatives, plus the mayor of Newark, showed up at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility located in Newark, New Jersey. Apparently, the mayor, Ras Baraka, has been actively opposed to the opening of the facility (which just opened up this last Tuesday). When a bus entered the gates of the facility on Friday, Baraka and the three representatives rushed inside. The three congressional members – Robert Menendez Jr., LaMonica McIver, and Bonnie Watson Coleman, all Democrats from New Jersey – claimed that they were there in order to conduct “oversight” of the federal facility, even though DHS says they had not arranged any kind of tour beforehand – and assaulted ICE agents during their little bum rush.

BREAKING: Rep. LaMonica McIver (red jacket) attacks law enforcement after storming New Jersey’s ICE facility pic.twitter.com/cAx0fk5Rgb

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 9, 2025

Mayor Baraka, however, is a local official with zero jurisdiction on federal property. When told to leave, he refused. So he was arrested.

Video posted to X at just after 3 p.m. by a News 12 New Jersey reporter showed Baraka, with his hands cuffed behind his back, being led away from the detention center by a Homeland Security Investigations officer.

Baraka “committed trespass and ignored multiple warnings from Homeland Security Investigations to remove himself from the ICE detention in Newark, New Jersey this afternoon,” Alina Habba, the US Attorney for the District of New Jersey wrote on X five minutes later.

“He has willingly chosen to disregard the law. That will not stand in this state. He has been taken into custody,” Habba posted, adding “NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.”

It came after Baraka and several New Jersey Democratic congresspeople — Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rob Menendez and LaMonica McIver — showed up at the Delaney Hall ICE facility, calling for the GEO Group-owned facility to be shut down.

“We’re at Delaney Hall, an ICE prison in Newark that opened without permission from the city & in violation of local ordinances,” Coleman wrote in a post on X, along with pictures and videos of the scene.

“We’ve heard stories of what it’s like in other ICE prisons. We’re exercising our oversight authority to see for ourselves,” she wrote.

Habba claimed that Baraka was inside the facility, “was warned, was asked to leave several times,” but refused.

Baraka “was put under arrest inside the facility, walked out when he was told he was under arrest, and then was cuffed,” she said in an interview with Fox News host Martha MacCallum.

Call me crazy, but I thought Democrats considered breaking into a federal facility and assaulting federal agents was an insurrection or something. Huh. And apparently, some Democrats also think that Baraka should not have been arrested, even though we have been reliably informed that “no one is above the law.” That includes Representative Ro Khanna of California (who really should have checked his previous tweets), and New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, who once bragged that he was harboring an illegal alien in his home.

Sounding like Democrats actually believe that some people are above the law.

Which is weird because I was told the opposite for several years https://t.co/snHnTlM5sd

— Sunny (@sunnyright) May 9, 2025

Hilariously, the representatives – who were not arrested – apparently saw enough at Delaney Hall to keep them satisfied for the time being, because their complaint now is that they were “manhandled” and that Baraka was arrested. But just like the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, they are rushing to defend people without checking WHO they actually are. The DHS X account put out a thread on some of the illegals they currently have incarcerated at Delaney Hall, which include MS-13 members, a Brazilian national with an INTERPOL warrant for homicide, and a criminal with felony convictions for drug trafficking, among others. Some real winners there, right? Again, who is advising the Democrats to keep pulling these stunts?

.@TriciaOhio on the Dems who broke into Delaney Detention Hall:
"A civilian, if they try to break into a detention facility, they will be physically restrained. Members of Congress also have to follow the law." pic.twitter.com/jqCBGRgsAY

— The Will Cain Show (@WillCainShow_) May 9, 2025

Lest you are worried, Mayor Baraka was released on Friday evening.

Did you know that Baraka is running for governor of New Jersey? Well, now you do.

Baraka was released around 7:50 p.m. to cheers from the large crowd of protesters and swath of public officials — including socialist Big Apple mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

“We know we’re right. What we ask for is correct,” the 55-year-old said to roars of support from those who had been chanting for his release.

“We ask them to obey our laws. To obey the policies and rules here in the city and state of New Jersey. And not to run roughshod over the Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights, the Fourth, Fifth, the 14th Amendments. Everyone on this soil deserves due process,” the gubernatorial candidate said.

Will Baraka truly face any consequences for his stunt? Will any of the representatives face assault charges for their actions? The Democrats are now calling for ICE to be abolished, which should come as no surprise. There are so many other issues that the Democrats could use to make hay against the Trump administration, which would have a better chance of political success. That they keep throwing in their lot so wholly and completely in with keeping the worst of the worst of illegal aliens in this country tells us just how bad their political instincts are.

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