Republican candidate for governor of New Jersey Jack Ciattarelli told Newsmax on Saturday that every single Democrat running against him “believes in sanctuary cities” and wants New Jersey to be a “sanctuary state.”

Last week, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested at a federal immigration detention center after he ignored instructions from Homeland Security to leave the Delaney Hall facility. Baraka has been making the media rounds since his arrest claiming that he has been unfairly targeted.

Ciattarelli said the authorities acted appropriately. “When someone is trespassing in a high security area, we put our hands on them by putting handcuffs on them. And that’s exactly what we did with Ras Baraka.

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