They don’t deserve to be in the House,” Noem said of the New Jersey lawmakers involved in the incident. “They should be censured by it.”

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, arrested for trespassing at a federal immigration facility last week, compared his confrontation with federal authorities to the biblical King David's trials.

The head of the Department of Homeland Security's immigration enforcement agency on Wednesday recognized the right of members of Congress to visit detention facilities, even unannounced, while the department's secretary said members of Congress should have requested a tour of an immigration detention facility in New Jersey where a skirmish broke out last week.

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) condemned the recent “interference and grandstanding” displayed by some Democratic lawmakers, arguing that any “physical altercation” with law enforcement is unacceptable. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested Friday for attempting to “storm” a U.

Tensions are rising in New Jersey after Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested outside a federal immigration detention center

The Department of Homeland Security accused three Democratic lawmakers of ‘storming’ an ICE facility despite oversight laws saying they could be there. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), one of the lawmakers who was at the facility,

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said in a debate Monday his actions that got him arrested days earlier at an ICE facility were "absolutely" an effective protest against President Donald Trump.