As RedState reported, things got spicy in New Jersey on Friday after a group of Democrat politicians tried to break into an ICE detention facility.
Representatives involved in the incident included Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rep. LaMonica McIver, and Rep. Rob Menendez Jr. Yes, the latter is the son of former Sen. Bob Menendez, who is currently serving time in jail for a bribery conviction involving gold bars. All three Democratic House members tried to push their way through a group of ICE agents who were stationed at the first checkpoint into the facility.
So let me get this straight…
If I attempted to break into an ICE detention facility and started shoving federal agents, I’d go to jail IMMEDIATELY.
But when a Democrat does it, they go on MSBNC and claim America is now an authoritarian state.
Can someone explain this to me? pic.twitter.com/8xFMIJPwZu
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) May 10, 2025
SEE: It Doesn’t Go Well for Dems Who Tried to Break Into an ICE Facility in New Jersey
However, one Democrat did end up getting arrested. This individual was Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who took his confrontation with ICE agents to a more extreme level. Predictably, after being charged and released, he promptly went to CNN to portray himself as the victim.
🚨 WOW: Newark Democrat Mayor Ras Baraka, fresh out of custody, runs to CNN and blasts U.S. Attorney Alina Habba:
“She wasn’t there. She has no idea what happened. I was there over an hour — nobody told me to move.”
The spin machine is in overdrive — are you buying it?… pic.twitter.com/bP51OFt833
— Tony Lane 🇺🇸 (@TonyLaneNV) May 10, 2025
COLLINS: Had there been warnings? What had happened?
BARAKA: Well, absolutely not. I mean, we could. The reality is that Alina Habba wasn’t present. The U.S. attorney wasn’t there. She doesn’t have firsthand knowledge of what took place. That wasn’t the situation at all. I spent over an hour in that area, and not once was I asked to leave. No ICE officer, no security personnel, no one approached me and instructed me to vacate the premises.
Somebody from Homeland Security came in the end and began to escalate the situation, and we wound up being where we are today, and that’s frankly the extent of it. I didn’t go there to break any laws, I didn’t break any laws. I was there as the Mayor of the City, exercising my right and duty as an elected official, supporting our Congress people, preparing for a press conference that was supposed to happen there. I did not enter that place unlawfully, I did not break any laws so she was not there, so she should get some better information.
As expected, Collins offered no pushback on Baraka’s obvious lies. Even before the video I’m about to share came out, others showed the Democrats involved shoving ICE agents and forcing their way through the checkpoint (such as the clip I posted above). That’s not up for debate, and Baraka’s claim that he “did not enter that place unlawfully” is objectively false.
What is also objectively false is the assertion by the mayor that he wasn’t asked to leave “for over an hour” and that no warnings were given.
#BREAKING: After going inside Delaney Hall, @CityofNewarkNJ Mayor @rasjbaraka is THREATENED to be arrested by GEOGroup.
SHAME!
New Jersey Congressional members @RepLaMonica @RepBonnie @RepMenendez step in! pic.twitter.com/oj4JJhZ54U
— Make the Road New Jersey 🦋 (@MaketheRoadNJ) May 9, 2025
In the video, you can hear the Homeland Security agent asking Baraka to leave, and he also goes on to point out that multiple other warnings had already been given. You’d think CNN, being a supposed news organization with access to all this information, would have bothered to correct the record, but luckily, we don’t have to rely on Kaitlin Collins for information.
Regardless, I want to point out that even if Baraka wasn’t asked to leave “for over an hour,” that would be irrelevant. There is no period of time by which trespassing becomes legal if lower-level agents aren’t sure how to handle the situation at first. Had Baraka’s first warning only come from the Homeland Security official who showed up, it still would have been perfectly justified to arrest and charge him.
Further, the fact that he was arrested outside the fence doesn’t change the fact that he was trespassing before that. If I break into your house but end up out on the lawn when police arrive, that doesn’t negate the crime that was committed. I still go to jail, and Baraka should be prosecuted. That’s the only way these entitled brat politicians are going to learn they aren’t special.
The hypocrisy here is simply stunning. You’ve got Democrats storming facilities and then their supporters claiming it’s “traitorous” to arrest them because “In America, you cannot arrest your political opponents.” What happened to “no one is above the law?” Democrats really shifted gears on that in a hurry, didn’t they?
