During an interview with ABC News on Tuesday, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said that his visit to an ICE facility in his city that ended up with him being arrested was not a trip he took to protest, but “if I was a part of a protest, that’s my right as a citizen of the state of New Jersey and as a citizen of the United States of America.”

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