An NJ Advance Media reporter on the scene said security for ICE allowed the mayor and the city’s lawyer beyond the gates. The congress members were already on the other side of the gate at this time. However, none of the video released by the Department of Homeland Security shows the interaction.

Legal experts and officials clash over Newark Mayor Baraka’s arrest at an ICE facility as DHS bodycam footage sparks new questions and controversy.

The Trump administration warned three Democratic lawmakers Saturday that arrests are “on the table” after they participated in a protest at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Newark, where the city’s Mayor Ras Baraka was collared.

Attorney and American Frontier Strategies CEO Mehek Cooke discusses the Department of Homeland Security announcing more arrests could be coming after ICE's arrest of Newark, New Jersey mayor.

The Department of Homeland Security accused three Democratic lawmakers of ‘storming’ an ICE facility despite oversight laws saying they could be there. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), one of the lawmakers who was at the facility,

Video provided to Fox News by DHS shows two of the politicians in an angry confrontation with ICE agents at a security checkpoint.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said in a debate Monday his actions that got him arrested days earlier at an ICE facility were "absolutely" an effective protest against President Donald Trump.