Newark Mayor Ras Baraka appeared in federal court for a status conference Thursday following his arrest outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility last week. The procedural hearing lasted about 30 minutes and was mostly rooted in the initial discovery.

Ras Baraka, a Democratic candidate for governor and backer of the hotel, is a vocal critic of President Donald Trump‘s immigration crackdown.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has released footage he says proves he was invited onto the grounds of Delaney Hall, a new ICE detention center in New Jersey, where he was arrested for trespassing last

American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey Executive Director Amol Sinha, in a statement sent to Newsweek via email on Friday: "The arrest of Mayor Ras Baraka by the Department of Homeland Security is a shameful escalation of the Trump administration's intimidation campaign against officials who refuse to do their bidding."

Slave owners would “have people chasing, catching you — it wasn’t called ICE then,” Baraka said during the April 13 gubernatorial campaign event in Willingboro.

Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka's trespassing charge at Delaney Hall is dismissed, but Rep. LaMonica McIver faces charges of stirring political tensions in Newark.