Last week’s dust-up at the New Jersey Delaney Hall detention center, where Immigration & Customs Enforcement is holding some of the worst of the worst of illegal alien criminals, gang members, drug dealers, and murderers, is beginning to result in some consequences. Not for the illegal aliens, mind you, although those goblins will face consequences soon enough. No, in this case, we’re talking about consequences for one of the New Jersey politicians who tried to force their way into Delaney Hall on the pretext of “oversight.” One of them, LaMonica McIver, is now facing possible federal charges, and it couldn’t happen to a more deserving loudmouth.
The Justice Department plans to bring charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-Newark) following a scuffle with federal immigration agents last week at Newark’s Delaney Hall detention center, three sources speaking on the condition of anonymity confirmed to the New Jersey Globe.
Much is still unknown about the case against the freshman congresswoman, but interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba could announce charges as early as today. McIver may turn herself in this afternoon, the New Jersey Globe learned; she’ll be represented by Paul Fishman, the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey during the Obama administration.
On Friday, May 9, McIver and three other prominent New Jersey Democrats – Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Ewing) and Rob Menendez (D-Jersey City) – visited Delaney Hall, a 1,000-bed facility in the East Ward of Newark that began housing immigrant detainees at the beginning of this month, for an oversight visit.
“Visited” is a nice way of saying “they tried to force their way inside,” with one of them, Mayor Baraka, being arrested on site for trespassing. And there may be more consequences meted out, as well:
Homeland Security Director Kristi Noem is calling for further measures to be taken in Congress.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is calling for censorship of members of Congress from New Jersey involved in last week’s heated confrontation with ICE officers outside a Newark immigration center.
Democratic Reps. LaMonica McIver, Rob Menendez, and Bonnie Watson Coleman “illegally” stormed the private facility that contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to hold migrants slated for deportation, according to the Trump administration.
Presumably, Secretary Noem called for “censure,” not “censorship.”
Here’s the thing: If Republican politicians had attempted this during the Obama administration, while President Obama was deporting 2 1/2 million illegal aliens, the hue and cry from the left would have been spectacular. These Democrats broke the law. They trespassed onto private property; Delaney Hall is a privately owned and operated facility. They arguably assaulted federal officers who were performing their legal duties; LaMonica McIver, in particular, is on video slapping and otherwise flailing her hands at federal officers. These people broke the law, they did so knowingly and deliberately, and now they will be called to account for it.
This isn’t about immigration policy. It’s about the Democrats’ knee-jerk rejection of anything any member of the Trump administration does, regardless of what effect it has on the American people or the American economy. That’s all there is to it.
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New: House Dems Involved in Chaos at Newark ICE Facility May Face Repercussions
And to the Democrats, I can only say this: No one is above the law, right? Right?
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