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Federal prosecutors charged Newark Mayor Ras Baraka with trespassing after agents arrested him outside the fence of theon Friday. The interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey says Baraka, a Democrat who is running for governor, ignored warnings to leave while he was at the 1,000-bed ICE facility with three members of New Jersey’s congressional delegation.

The arrest escalated into a brief but tense confrontation in the parking lot that included the members of Congress and federal agents, some of whom wore masks.The representatives — Reps. LaMonica McIver, Bonnie Watson Coleman and Robert Menendez Jr. — have said they went to the facility to inspect it as a matter of congressional oversight.“We were able to get in, speak to detainees, check out the facilities, and make sure everything was OK there,” Rep. Watson Coleman told CNN in an interview Sunday that also included her two New Jersey colleagues. “We were there almost two hours before the confrontation took place, but ICE kept giving us the runaround and kept saying that they needed to talk to someone else.”

Watson Coleman spokesperson Ned Cooper has said the three lawmakers went there unannounced because they planned to inspect the site, not take a scheduled tour.DHS and ICE are integral to President Donald Trump’s goal of carrying out mass deportations.

Lyons defended ICE’s performance, saying his agents were finally able to do the job they signed up for. He said the agency is focusing on “the worst of the worst,” and Homeland Security touts daily the arrests they’ve made of people convicted of crimes in the U.S. or alleged gang members. But critics dispute that, saying the agency is sweeping up people who pose no threat in their push to increase deportations.

Lyons said there had been nine deaths in custody, and the agency investigates all of them.Dugan’s arrest has escalated a clash between the Trump administration and Democrats over the Republican president’s

Democrats contend that Dugan’s arrest went too far and that the administration is trying to make an example out of her to discourage judicial opposition to the crackdown.Dugan’s case is similar to one brought during the first Trump administration

, who was accused of helping a man sneak out a courthouse back door to evade a waiting immigration enforcement agent. That case was eventually dismissed.According to prosecutors, Eduardo Flores-Ruiz illegally reentered the U.S. after being deported in 2013. He was charged in March with misdemeanor domestic violence in Milwaukee County and was in Dugan’s courtroom for a hearing in that case on April 18.