🔵 Newark Mayor Arrested

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Citizen Frank
May 09, 2025

Good morning. It’s Friday, May 9.

 

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested by police at Delaney Hall Detention Center, used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain illegal immigrants in his city, for trespassing at the facility.

Two Democratic U.S. Congressmen “stormed” the ICE prison according to the Department of Homeland Security, which said such conduct “goes beyond a bizarre political stunt and puts the safety of our law enforcement agents and detainees at risk.”

“The Mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, committed trespass and ignored multiple warnings from Homeland Security Investigations to remove himself from the ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey this afternoon,” Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba, who is also a counselor to President Donald Trump, said in a post on X. “He has willingly chosen to disregard the law. That will not stand in this state. He has been taken into custody. NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.”

Speaker Mike Johnson told House Republicans behind closed doors Thursday that he is pursuing $1.5 trillion in spending cuts as part of the GOP’s party-line megabill, resulting in a smaller tax cuts package of $4 trillion.

The scaled-down component of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would present a huge challenge to House Republicans and their ability to include all of their priorities — not to mention the priorities of President Donald Trump — according to three people with direct knowledge of the speaker’s comments.

House Ways and Means Committee Republicans had been previously considering the $4 trillion tax package, as POLITICO first reported, as opposed to its original $4.5 trillion target.

The Trump administration is “actively looking at” suspending the constitutional right of habeas corpus in its intensifying fight against illegal immigration, White House Deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said Friday.

While speaking to reporters outside the White House, Miller said President Donald Trump is considering invoking a constitutional power to suspend habeas corpus, a move not used since former President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, to address what the administration has called an “invasion” at the southern border.

“The Constitution is clear, and that, of course, is the supreme law of the land, that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in time of invasion,” Miller said. “So, I would say that’s an option we’re actively looking at.”

Air traffic controllers handling flights approaching and departing Newark Liberty International Airport experienced another outage early Friday morning.

The blackout included losing radar for about 90 seconds at 3:55 a.m. local time, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.

“There was a telecommunications outage that impacted communications and radar display at Philadelphia TRACON Area C, which guides aircraft in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport airspace,” the statement noted.

Vivek Ramaswamy has further tightened his hold on the GOP nomination for governor in next year’s election after the Ohio Republican Party voted to endorse him on Friday.

Despite private opposition from Gov. Mike DeWine, Ramaswamy and his allies convinced the required two-thirds of the Ohio Republican Party’s central committee to issue an endorsement in the race. After that, it was a fait accompli to win a simple majority.

The central committee – which is made up of elected party insiders – voted 51-13 to endorse in the race. It then voted 60-3 to endorse Ramaswamy, party officials said. Attorney General Dave Yost, who’s been positioning to run for governor for years, got the three votes. Yost’s wife, Darlene, spoke on behalf of his candidacy, according to a committee member.

India has offered to slash its tariff gap with the U.S. to less than 4% from nearly 13% now, in exchange for an exemption from President Donald Trump’s “current and potential” tariff hikes, two sources said, as both nations move fast to clinch a deal.

This would mean that the average tariff differential between India and the U.S., calculated across all products without weighting for trade volume, would be reduced by 9 percentage points, in one of the most sweeping changes to bring down trade barriers in the world’s fifth largest economy.

The United States is India’s largest trading partner, with bilateral trade totalling some $129 billion in 2024. The trade balance is currently in favour of India, which runs a $45.7 billion surplus with the U.S.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plans on photographing every single person who leaves the US by car, an agency spokesperson told Wired. The agency says it will start using facial recognition technology at official border crossings to match all outbound travelers’ faces to their passports, visas, or other travel documents, though there’s no public timeline for when this will happen.

“Although we are still working on how we would handle outbound vehicle lanes, we will ultimately expand to this area,” CBP spokesperson Jessica Turner told Wired. It’s an expansion of the agency’s current practice of photographing travelers as they enter the country and matching those photos with “all documented photos, i.e., passports, visas, green cards, etc,” the agency has on record.

CBP has been working on ways to track people as they leave the US for over a decade. After two years of lab tests, CBP experimented with collecting travelers’ biometrics at airports in 2016. That year, the agency partnered with Delta Air Lines to photograph passengers boarding a Tokyo-bound flight at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

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