LaMonica McIver, ICE and New Jersey
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During an interview on Saturday, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin spoke with CNN reporter Victor Blackwell about the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka at an ICE facility protest.
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.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said House Democrats could be arrested after a Friday visit to Delaney Hall, a New Jersey detention center for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The Department of Homeland Security alleged that Worcester City Councilor Etel Haxhiaj “pulled a political stunt and incited chaos."
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.
The legislators were with Mayor Ras Baraka when he was arrested Friday outside an immigration detention facility. A Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman said they could face assault charges.
Democratic New Jersey Reps. Rob Menendez, LaMonica McIver, and Bonnie Watson Coleman were at the facility with Baraka to protest the ICE prison.
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.
A Massachusetts police union is calling for charges against a City Councilmember who allegedly assaulted local and federal officers — and incited a caught-on-video chaotic protest of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest of an accused violent criminal.