Newark Mayor Ras Baraka on his arrest at ICE facility
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The resolution would remove Watson Coleman from Appropriations, Menendez from Energy and Commerce, and McIver from Homeland Security and Small Business.
They don’t deserve to be in the House,” Noem said of the New Jersey lawmakers involved in the incident. “They should be censured by it.”
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, arrested for trespassing at a federal immigration facility last week, compared his confrontation with federal authorities to the biblical King David's trials.
Newark city officials were back in front of Delaney Hall on ... The notices allege the Geo Group, which is contracted by ICE to operate the 1,000-bed facility, is refusing city officials entry to the facility and improperly padlocking the front gate.
Members of Congress are not above the law and cannot illegally break into detention facilities. Had these members requested a tour, we would have facilitated a tour of the facility,”
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House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries warned the Trump administration not to pursue charges against three Democratic Representatives who were on scene lask week when Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested trying to inspect an ICE facility in Newark,
Tensions are rising in New Jersey after Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested outside a federal immigration detention center
The Department of Homeland Security accused three Democratic lawmakers of ‘storming’ an ICE facility despite oversight laws saying they could be there. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), one of the lawmakers who was at the facility,