Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said he’s been “shocked by all the lies” told so far about his arrest at an immigration detention center, specifically the false claims he’d been

American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey Executive Director Amol Sinha, in a statement sent to Newsweek via email on Friday: "The arrest of Mayor Ras Baraka by the Department of Homeland Security is a shameful escalation of the Trump administration's intimidation campaign against officials who refuse to do their bidding."