Newark Mayor Ras Baraka sues Alina Habba over his arrest at an immigration detention center

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka filed a suit Tuesday against interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba and a Department of Homeland Security investigator, alleging that Habba defamed him and they violated his law rights erstwhile helium was arrested astatine a national migration detention halfway earlier this month.

Baraka brought the suit against Habba, who antecedently served arsenic President Donald Trump's idiosyncratic attorney, and Ricky J. Patel, a peculiar cause successful complaint of the Newark part of Homeland Security investigations. The politician alleges they violated his Fourth Amendment close against mendacious apprehension and malicious prosecution.

Alina Habba successful the Oval Office connected March 28.Saul Loeb / AFP - Getty Images file

Baraka, a Democratic gubernatorial candidate, was arrested connected trespassing charges aft helium and members of Congress attempted to participate an Immigration and Customs Enforcement installation successful Newark connected May 9 to reappraisal the attraction of detainees. Those charges were aboriginal dropped.

Habba, the acting U.S. lawyer for the District of New Jersey, had alleged that Baraka “ignored aggregate warnings from Homeland Security” officials to “remove himself" from the facility, and aboriginal said she was dismissing the misdemeanor complaint "for the involvement of moving forward."

The Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department did not instantly responded to NBC News' requests for comment.

The Justice section later charged Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., with assaulting, resisting and impeding instrumentality enforcement officials implicit the incidental astatine the facility. The DOJ besides sued Newark and different New Jersey cities, including Paterson, Hoboken and Jersey City, implicit sanctuary policies. In response, Baraka called the suit "absurd."

"We are not lasting successful the mode of nationalist safety," Baraka said successful a statement. "We are upholding the Constitution, providing oversight, and pursuing the laws and guidelines of the State of New Jersey Nothing successful our policies prevents instrumentality enforcement from doing their jobs. What we garbage to bash is crook our metropolis into an limb of national migration enforcement, which the courts person already ruled is not our role."