#MayorBaraka of #NewarkNJ, arrested at #immigration #DetentionCenter he has been #protesting
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and CLAUDIA LAUER
Updated 7:00 PM EDT, May 9, 2025
"Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested Friday at a federal immigration detention center where he has been protesting its opening this week, a federal prosecutor said.
"Alina Habba, interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, said on the social platform X that Baraka committed trespass and ignored warnings from #HomelandSecurity personnel to leave #DelaneyHall, a detention facility run by private prison operator #GeoGroup.
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"Video shows the mayor standing on the public side of the gate
"In video of the altercation shared with The Associated Press, a federal official in a jacket with the logo of the Homeland Security Investigations can be heard telling Baraka he could not join a tour of the facility because 'you are not a congress member.'
"Baraka then left the secure area, rejoining protesters on the public side of the gate. Video showed him speaking through the gate to a man in a suit, who said: 'They’re talking about coming back to arrest you.'
" 'I’m not on their property. They can’t come out on the street and arrest me,' Baraka replied."
#Resist #ResistICE #NewJerseyResists #ICESucks #PrivatePrisons #PrivatePrison #IllegalDetention #Fascism #ResistFascism #AuthoritarianRule #Authoritarianism
The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, has been arrested at a federal immigration detention center where he has been protesting its opening this week. A federal prosecutor says on the social platform X that Ras Baraka committed trespass Friday and ignored warnings to leave the Delaney Hall facility. Witnesses say Baraka tried to enter the center with three members of New Jersey’s congressional delegation who arrived unannounced to inspect it. They say he was arrested after returning to public property. Baraka has protested the construction and opening of the 1,000-bed detention center, including filing a lawsuit challenging its permits. The facility is run by a private operator.
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#QuiBono - who profits?
Trump’s pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, is a former lobbyist for the #GEOGroup, one of the world’s biggest #privateprison companies.
https://portside.org/2024-11-26/inside-plan-let-trump-track-millions-immigrants
Intensive Supervision Appearance Program for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) “Vendors” - Geo & #COREcivic - #surveillance incarceration/deportation for profit
https://www.levernews.com/private-prison-firms-set-to-cash-in-on-immigrant-surveillance-boom/
20th century “mass Deportation” Models
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/trumps-deportation-model/
For the last year, private prison companies and corporate interests have been quietly lobbying to place millions of immigrants under electronic surveillance, according to records uncovered by The Lever. Now that a second Trump administration will soon assume power, with a former prison lobbyist set to be his top legal adviser, there are signs the plans are already moving forward.
Shares in #PrivatePrison companies have gone up with #Trump's election since that's partly the point. The #PrisonIndustrialComplex will make a fortune on his mass #deportation policy and the #ConcentrationCamps it will require. It's all a titanic grift.
One bonus of a #GOP majority in executive & legislative branches will be #megadonors getting rewarded with #taxbreaks and exclusive federal contracts that will stimulate the #PrivatePrison economy
#DJT can finally build Chinese-style #slavelabor camps to reward #incarceration inc industry donors and begin ousting weak law abiding embedded #CivilService workers cluttering federal agencies. #MAGA
#Project2025 will make everything so much easier!
The private prison behemoth GEO Group became the first corporation whose PAC maxed out to former President Donald Trump’s campaign in late February.
A 29-year-old man from Harris County died just weeks after being sent to the LaSalle Correctional Center, a privately-owned prison located hundreds of miles away.
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The #US #legal system is not at all about #justice, but about justifying our #carceral #PrisonIndustrialComplex which imprisons people at a much higher rate than any other country—about as many as #China—while, obscenely, inhumanely, and unjustly, creating massive #profits for both "#PrivatePrison" #corporations and contractors for #government-run #jails and #prisons.
Our entire system must be rebuilt, and #courtrooms need to be included in that process.
#10yrsago Bill to cut off funding to schools that ban brandishing a pastry in a gun-like manner http://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/08/bill-would-protect-students-right-to-carry-pastry-guns.html
#10yrsago Crooks rip off nonprofit rape crisis center, then return the stuff with an apology note https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stolen-computers-arrive-back-at-non-2013-08/
#10yrsago Judge who accepted #PrivatePrison bribes to send black kids to jail sentenced to 28 years https://rollingout.com/2013/07/30/judge-must-serve-28-years-after-making-2-million-for-sending-children-to-jail/
#10yrsago #CivilForfeiture: America’s daylight robbery, courtesy of the #WarOnDrugs https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/12/taken
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