New Jersey Citizen Action (NJCA) Executive Director Dena Mottola Jaborska released the following statement following Mayor Ras Baraka being taken into custody outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center in Newark today:
"New Jersey Citizen Action stands by Mayor Ras Baraka as he stands up for immigrants, people of color, and our most vulnerable communities. The Trump administration's war on immigrants has nothing to do with justice or public safety, it's about repression, silencing dissent, targeting people of color, and enriching the corporate prison system. Our next governor should be distinguished by the fights they choose to fight, and by the extent to which they'll go to stand up against injustice. We urge all of our elected officials, and all New Jersey, to stand by Ras at this time."