Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, arrested for trespassing at a federal immigration facility last week, compared his confrontation with federal authorities to the biblical King David's trials.

More than a hundred Allston-Brighton residents and local leaders gathered on a lawn behind the Charlesview Residences on Tuesday evening to protest alleged Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in the neighborhood.

Anger over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Acton sparked a large-scale protest Sunday, just a day after agents detained multiple individuals in the town.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said in a debate Monday his actions that got him arrested days earlier at an ICE facility were "absolutely" an effective protest against President Donald Trump.

WORCESTER, Mass. (WCVB) – Families, protestors and neighbors filled the streets of Worcester, Massachusetts, on Sunday after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a mother in front of her daughters, including one who had a baby with her.

The contrast between ICE officers in camouflage fatigues and the “nice old ladies” protesting outside the immigrant detention center might have been comic if not for the guns and plastic wrist cuffs the officers carried and the violent confrontation between Newark Police and other demonstrators the night before.

Large yellow barricades were at the front of Delaney Hall on Tuesday morning following protests at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on Monday and last week.

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