US mayor arrested while trying to enter immigration detention centre

By Andrew Goudsward and Steve Gorman, Reuters The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, a Democrat who is running for governor of the US state, has been arrested at a privately run federal immigration detention centre while three US lawmakers were on site for an unannounced inspection, officials said. Mayor Ras Baraka was taken into custody on Friday by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in a scuffle at the gate to the ICE facility in Newark during the visit by three members of New Jersey's co