The US Senator Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, speaks on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, in Washington, DC (photo of Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom) at a press conference outside of the US Capitol.
Washington – The Democrats of Congress pursued the indictment on Tuesday for the Trump government’s indictment New Jersey US Rep. Lamonica Mciver consequences A collision with law enforcement authorities At the beginning of this month in front of an immigration finding center in Newark.
The leaders of the congress Black Caucus, the democratic women -Caucus and the progressive caucus of the congress defended McIver at a press conference, in which the dozens of Democrats participated outside the US Capital, and argued that the New Jersey Democrat simply carried out their work on the management of the facility.
In A Criminal complaintMciver is accused of two cases of “attacks, resistance and disability of certain leaders or employees”, whereby an indictment with a specialist agent for home protection examinations and another deportation officer for immigration and customs authorities.
The charges are connected with McIvers visit on May 9th in the internment camp, where they from the Democrats of New Jersey – Reps. Rob Menendez and Bonnie Watson Coleman was accompanied. The legislators had said they wanted to inspect the internment camp.
According to the federal authorities, McIver attacked two civil servants when she tried to prevent Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. Alina Habba, reigning US lawyer for the district of New Jersey, Announced on Monday That she drops an indictment against Baraka against Baraka, which comes from the same patient situation.
“Reprehensible political stunt”
At the Capitol press conference, Rep. Yvette Clarke, chairman of Black Caucus, described the indictment as a “reprehensible political stunt”.
The New York Democrat said: “Members of the Congress have the right to conduct an supervision in ICE institutions and in any other federal authority, and if unemployed, undeniable and malignant violations of the law and freedoms of people take place, they actually have an obligation to do so.”
The Democratic Senator of New Jersey, Cory Booker, said, McIver, Menendez and Watson Coleman “used her voice and did her job.”
“They actually obey the constitution. They stand up to lead this administration to checks, in which the Republicans who control the house and the Senate down and their duties to check and compensate the president to fully canceled,” he added.
The democratic MP of New Jersey, Frank Pallone, also condemned the indictment on Tuesday and described the actions of the Ministry of Justice as “outrageous”.
Before a hearing on Tuesday in the Justice Committee of the House Pallone led several others in “threats to ice operations” New Jersey Democrats Write the chairman of the panel, the MP Jim Jordan von Ohio, and the ranking member, MP Jamie Raskin from Maryland, to express your support for the supervisory visit of the three legislators in the internment camp.
The group also condemned what they consider to be the efforts of the judicial and home protection departments “to politicize and suppress the legal monitoring of the congress through intimidation and threats of legal measures against our colleagues”.
“Groundless fees”
MP Greg Casar, chairman of the Congress Progressive Caucus, said the Ministry of Justice, “submitted the unfounded indictment against a member of the congress because she simply did her work should a shaking frost relax.”
The Texas Democrat said that the Caucus had held a meeting shortly before the press conference, in which they decided that they “just make a lot more visits to the supervisory facilities”.
He said that the members of the Caucus recognized at the meeting that President Trump “does not want us to lead to supervision in ice institutions such as these brave members of the congress – he would like to keep us doing this.”
