Mayor of Newark, NJ, Ras Baraka was arrested for trespassing during a protest against an ICE detention facility, but has denied the allegations and is seeking legal action against the facility’s operator.
Seven people have died in ICE custody during Trump’s second term, highlighting a crisis of accountability in the federal detention system, with arrests spiking and detention centers struggling with overcrowding and allegations of systemic medical neglect.
The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, while the ACLU has been working to protect the constitutional rights of American citizens, immigrants, and queer people from the administration’s increasingly authoritarian policies.