Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman on her tussle with ICE and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka's arrest

WNYC News | May 10, 2025

Newark mayor Ras Baraka was arrested on Friday night by immigration officials during a chaotic confrontation at Delaney Hall, a newly reopened private prison contracted by the Department of Homeland Security as a holding facility for migrant detainees.

He was joined by three U.S. members of Congress conducting an oversight tour of the jail. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman was among them. Video shows Coleman, along with her colleagues, being pushed and corralled by federal officials. 

The morning after the incident, Watson Coleman joins Weekend Edition host David Furst to talk about what happened.

 

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