Mehdi Hasan
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Why the Newark Mayor was ARRESTED by ICE
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May 15, 2025
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24:12Now PlayingWhen Newark Mayor Ras Baraka visited a New Jersey ICE facility to inspect it for violations, he didn’t expect to become a detainee himself — but in Donald Trump’s America, nothing is off the table.
“The reality is, they're wearing these masks because they're saying they're under attack, but they're the ones doing the attacking,” Baraka tells Mehdi Hasan and Zeteo subscribers during a live stream, here on YouTube and Substack ().
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Despite his arrest, Baraka says the job is still not done, that there are violations happening in these facilities, and that ICE’s power is a ’slippery slope’ to ‘authoritarianism.’
Mehdi and Baraka also took questions from subscribers, who wanted to know what they can do as citizens to stand up to fascism, the identities of the ICE agents who arrested the mayor, and much more.
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