That statement in the headline to this piece - "You can teach 'em, but you can't learn 'em" - was a favorite saying of my grandfather's. It implies, of course, that despite how many lessons you administer, some people just plain never learn.

Like, say, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who returned again to the Newark Delaney Hall ICE facility on Tuesday, following his trespassing arrest on Friday.

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.

Baraka, a Democrat running for governor in the June 10 primary, was turned away from Delaney Hall, the facility where he was arrested Friday. He departed and stayed about a half hour away from the building, according to NJ.com

Witnesses said the arrest last week came after Baraka attempted to join three members of New Jersey’s congressional delegation, Reps. Robert Menendez, LaMonica McIver, and Bonnie Watson Coleman, in attempting to enter the facility.

Baraka, an outspoken opponent of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and vocal opponent of the facility’s opening, faces a court hearing on the trespassing charge on Thursday. He has denied the trespassing charge.

Of course, he denied the trespassing charge, even though he was literally caught on video. His claim seems to hinge on the idea that he couldn't be trespassing because he was outside the facility when arrested, although he had been (illegally) inside the secure area moments before.

In video of the Friday altercation shared with The Associated Press, a federal official in a jacket with the logo of the Homeland Security Investigations can be heard telling Baraka he could not enter the facility because “you are not a Congress member.”

Baraka then left the secure area, rejoining protesters on the public side of the gate. Video showed him speaking through the gate to a man in a suit, who said: “They’re talking about coming back to arrest you.”

“I’m not on their property. They can’t come out on the street and arrest me,” Baraka replied.

Now, the Associated Press is trying to run cover for Mayor Baraka, and that's no surprise. But they slipped up and were accidentally accurate for once; they note that "Baraka then left the secure area," meaning that he was indeed trespassing inside the secure area; he was arrested outside that secure area.

Here's the thing: If someone comes into your house illegally, it doesn't become legal if they leave when you call the police and stand out in the street. The crime of trespass was still committed. They are still subject to arrest. And Mayor Baraka, after leaving the secure area where even the AP admits he was, was still trespassing while he was in the secure area.

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At this point, Mayor Ras Baraka is grandstanding, and nothing more. Immigration policy is none of his business; he is skipping out on what the people of Newark actually elected him to do. He is showing off his Stage IV Trump Derangement Syndrome and burnishing his "progressive" cred for his gubernatorial run. That's all he's doing.

And where were these clowns in 2016, at which point Barack Obama had set a new record for deportations? Seems to me they were awfully quiet when it was a Democrat doing the deporting.

Thanks to President Trump, illegal immigration into our great country has virtually stopped. Despite the radical left's lies, new legislation wasn't needed to secure our border, just a new president.

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