AOC Flips Trump Admin’s Threats To Arrest Dems Over ICE Protest | EUROtoday

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) had a stern message for Republican officers threatening to arrest lawmakers who had been concerned in a confrontation at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention heart in Newark, New Jersey.

The congresswoman accused President Donald Trump’s administration of illegally stopping a gaggle of Garden State Democrats from touring the power, the place Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested for trespassing on Friday.

Afterwards, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security mentioned the federal government was trying into arresting three congress members who joined Baraka through the go to.

“They’re using public intimidation because they know that they cannot come for us all,” Ocasio-Cortez mentioned throughout a livestream on social media Saturday evening.

She argued that the protesting politicians had been exercising “their legal and constitutional obligation to conduct oversight,” and it was Trump officers who had been really within the flawed.

“If anyone is breaking the law in this situation, it’s not members of Congress, it’s the Department of Homeland Security,” she mentioned. “It’s people like Tom Homan and Secretary Kristi Noem.”

Ocasio-Cortez then warned, “You lay a finger on Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman or any of the Representatives that were there… we’re going to have a problem.”

The congresswoman mentioned the lawmakers had been “legally required to be granted access and they legally cannot be inhibited from accessing these facilities to conduct their constitutional obligation to investigate and conduct oversight.”

“So if Kristi Noem wants to break the law, that’s on her,” she continued. “But it sure as hell is not someone like Rep. Robert Menendez that needs to be arrested.”

On Saturday, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin accused the group of attacking ICE officers and mentioned the Trump administration was trying into arresting New Jersey Reps. Coleman, Menendez and LaMonica McIver.

“I think that we should let viewers know there will likely be more coming,” she advised CNN of potential arrests. “We actually have body camera footage of some of these members of Congress assaulting our ICE enforcement officers, including body-slamming a female ICE officer.”

“This is an ongoing investigation, and that is definitely on the table,” she added.