She doesn’t know what happened … I was there for over an hour in that space, and nobody ever told me to move. Habba later justified the arrest publicly on social media and argued that the Democratic mayor and current gubernatorial candidate was rightfully detained. A former personal attorney for Trump, Habba was made a counselor to the president in December. Advertisement“The Mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, committed trespass and ignored multiple warnings from Homeland Security Investigations to remove himself from the ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey this afternoon,” she wrote Friday on X, formerly Twitter. “He has willingly chosen to disregard the law,” Habba continued.

Source: Huffington Post May 10, 2025 23:05 UTC