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Washington Post
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Democratic Rep. McIver charged with assault after skirmish at ICE center, New Jersey prosecutor says
WASHINGTON — New Jersey's top federal prosecutor said Monday that she's charging Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver with assault after a skirmish with federal officers who arrested the Newark mayor outside an immigration detention center. Interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba announced the charge on social media, but court papers providing details were not immediately released or publicly available online. Habba said McIver is charged with assaulting, impeding or interfering with law enforcement.
Fox News
12-05-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Dems Mount an Insurrection on ICE Facility?
Democrats attempted a very weird Shawshank redemption prison break moment and it went about as well as you'd imagine. I'm Tomi Lahren, more next. The Trump Administration is going around arresting mayors and, potentially, sitting members of Congress for no apparent reason! Well, at least that's the story you'll hear from the media and the lying mouths of Democrats ON mainstream media. The REAL story goes like this, members of Congress- including the Mayor of Newark who was arrested on site- stormed the barrier at an ICE detention facility in New Jersey during a detainee transfer, seemingly shoved federal agents and impeded a law enforcement operation. Still, claim THEY were roughed up but the body cam footage paints a very different picture! They claim they were there to 'conduct oversight' but let's be clear, these elected officials could have requested a tour of the facility to do their 'oversight' and could've conducted themselves like members of congress and public servants rather than feral bobcats, but no. Charge them all, honestly! No one is above the law. Your performative outbursts might get you TV time but they could also get you jail time if you don't clean up your act! I'm Tomi Lahren and you watch my show 'Tomi Lahren is Fearless' at Learn more about your ad choices. Visit
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
House Dem Blasts ICE Barbie's ‘Un-American' Lockup of Jersey Mayor
One of the House Democrats from New Jersey under investigation by Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security has slammed the government's arrest of Newark's mayor as 'un-American.' House Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman told CNN's State of the Union that Immigration and Customs Enforcement's arrest of Mayor Ras Baraka is what led tensions to explode as she and two other House Democrats attempted to tour an ICE detention facility. DHS has said Coleman and the other House Oversight Democrats—Reps. Robert Menendez and LaMonica McIver, also from New Jersey—were under investigation for allegedly 'assaulting' ICE agents and may be arrested. 'Chaos ensued when someone on the phone above the leaders of ICE who were with us at that facility instructed them to go out of the facility, go to the private property and lock the mayor of the largest city in the state of New Jersey up,' Coleman said alongside Menendez and McIver. 'That's absurd. That's un-American. That's scary. That's determination to intimidate people in this country.' The threat of arrests came as the Trump administration has targeted perceived opponents of its political agenda with various forms of retribution, whether through executive orders focused on law firms, investigations into news organizations, or arrests of public officials it claims impede its law enforcement duties, including the Newark mayor and a Wisconsin judge. Baraka was arrested on Friday and charged with trespassing after he tried to enter the detention facility to see whether it had violated safety codes. New Jersey's interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba claimed Baraka 'committed trespass,' though Baraka said he was arrested on a public street outside of the facility. DHS also claimed the lawmakers 'stormed' and 'broke into' the detention facility and assaulted ICE officers, though McIver disputed DHS' assertion that she was seen 'body-slamming' an ICE officer. 'I honestly do not know how to body slam anyone. There's no video that supports me body slamming anyone,' McIver said in the Sunday interview. 'We were simply there to do our job, therefore oversight visit, and what you're watching in a video when you don't have all of the body camera—and we hope that all of the body cam is released—it was a very tense situation. It unfortunately did not have to be like that. They created that confrontation. They created that chaos.' Camera-ready Noem has earned the moniker 'ICE Barbie' for her love of bizarre publicity stunts at ICE raids or at detention centers.
CNN
10-05-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Newark Mayor Arrested By Federal Agents At ICE Facility - Laura Coates Live - Podcast on CNN Audio
Newark Mayor Arrested By Federal Agents At ICE Facility Laura Coates Live 47 mins Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested Friday at a federal immigration detention center where he has been protesting its opening this week and held in custody for several hours. Baraka was released shortly after 8 p.m. and, after stepping out of an SUV with flashing emergency lights, told waiting supporters: 'The reality is this: I didn't do anything wrong."
