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White House Border Czar Tom Homan criticized Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver on Tuesday following her indictment for assaulting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during an incident at the Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, New Jersey.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the confrontation took place earlier this month and involved McIver and fellow Democratic Representatives Bonnie Watson Coleman and Rob Menendez Jr., along with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka.
The group forced their way into the ICE facility in an attempt to stop the detention of individuals suspected of being in the country illegally. Baraka was arrested during the incident.
Footage from the scene shows McIver in a red outfit repeatedly pushing and striking federal officers during the encounter. She was later charged with assaulting, impeding, and interfering with federal agents.
U.S. Attorney Alina Habba announced the indictment on Monday evening, stating, “No one is above the law — politicians or otherwise.”
McIver responded to the charges on Tuesday, calling them “purely political” and accusing ICE agents of escalating the situation. “They created an unnecessary and unsafe confrontation when they chose to arrest Mayor Baraka,” she said in a public statement.
Rep. Watson Coleman also responded to the incident by launching into a profanity-laced tirade, claiming the situation stemmed from racial bias. “Bullsh*t!” she said when asked why the group stormed the facility, also invoking accusations of “White supremacy.”
Homan condemned the lawmakers’ behavior and rhetoric. “It’s disgusting,” he said.
“While these people are sitting home at night and sleeping in their beds nice and comfortably, the men and women of ICE are on the street, putting their lives on the line to arrest public safety threats and national security threats. She should be thanking them for making her community safer, rather than attacking them.”
Homan also commented on the Supreme Court’s recent 8-1 decision to lift a lower court’s injunction blocking President Trump’s order to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 350,000 Venezuelan nationals.
The decision gives federal authorities the green light to begin large-scale removals.
“We’re going to have more deportations,” Homan said. “If they don’t have any status to be in the country, that means they need to be deported.”
The administration has pledged to move forward with enforcement, citing national security concerns and the need to uphold immigration law.
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