Baraka was arrested Friday after he and two Democratic members of Congress “stormed” the ICE Delaney Hall Detention Center “as a bus of detainees was entering the security gate,” according to the Department of Homeland Security, which said such conduct “goes beyond a bizarre political stunt and puts the safety of our law enforcement agents and detainees at risk.”
Speaking outside the ICE detention facility Friday, Baraka called for “due process” for detained illegal immigrants.
“We ask them to obey our laws, to obey the policies, the rules here, in the city and the state of New Jersey, not to run roughshod over the Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights, the 4th, 5th, the 14th Amendment, that everybody on this soil deserves due process,” the Newark mayor said.
Reacting to Baraka’s arrest and message, Homan blasted Baraka for creating a “huge safety crisis.”
“Well, look, he’s not very smart. The bottom line is, that is what this facility is all about. This facility is about due process. This facility is where we put illegal aliens,” Homan told Fox News Live Saturday. “This is where due process happens. We have to detain them to go through the due process of, sometimes seeing a judge.”
Homan added that people do not have to support ICE, but that they “can’t cross that line of impediment.”
“You can’t cross that line of knowingly harboring, concealing illegal aliens, and you certainly can’t trespass in a facility that’s contracted by the U.S. government to house criminals,” he said. “That’d be like breaking into a prison, not going through the proper protocols. This creates a huge safety crisis.”
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Democratic New Jersey Reps. Rob Menendez, LaMonica McIver, and Bonnie Watson Coleman were with Baraka on Friday to protest the ICE detention facility. According to DHS, Coleman and Menendez “stormed the gate” of the facility and “holed up” in a guard shack at the first security checkpoint.
Baraka is running for New Jersey governor in 2026 to replace incumbent Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy.
