Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba confirmed her office is investigating possible criminal charges following Friday’s unauthorized

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Newark Mayor Ras Baraka briefly returned Tuesday to the gates of the federal immigration detention center where he was arrested last week on trespassing charges.

This story was updated at 11:39 a.m. on May 4 after the White House publicly denied Booker’s claims. Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey

The Trump administration warned three Democratic lawmakers Saturday that arrests are “on the table” after they participated in a protest at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Newark, where the city’s Mayor Ras Baraka was collared.

Unanswered legal questions remain as the Trump administration signals it might test the term limits of U.S. attorneys, sidestepping Senate confirmation and the courts. Those questions may lead to conflict between the role of U.

Bolaji Bolarinwa, 50, of Moorestown, was sentenced on Friday to three years and nine months in federal prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of New Jersey said in a statement. A jury convicted her last year of two counts of forced labor, two counts of document servitude and one count of alien harboring for financial gain.

Federal prosecutors said Treva Edwards and his wife, Christine, forced members of their Orange, New Jersey church into sex and slave labor, even getting one victim pregnant.

A Department of Homeland Security ( DHS) official confirmed Saturday that arrests of Democratic members of Congress "is definitely on the table" following a confrontation at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE) facility in Newark, New Jersey.

U.S. District Judge Evelyn Padin handed down the 48-month sentence in Newark federal court and ordered Hass to pay $3.5 million in restitution. “Walter Hass spent a decade failing to pay payroll taxes,” U.S. Attorney Alina Habba said in a statement.

Ras Baraka, the Democratic mayor of Newark, New Jersey, and a contender in the race to become governor, has been arrested for trespassing after refusing to exit Delaney Hall, a federally-contracted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility,