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Ras Baraka arrest: Trump administration eyes charging three more NJ Democrats in ICE fracas
The Trump administration suggested Saturday that New Jersey Democratic lawmakers involved in a clash a day earlier with authorities at a federal immigration detention center that led to the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka also could face criminal charges.
“There will likely be more arrests coming,” Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told CNN in an interview on Saturday.
“We actually have body camera footage of some of these members of Congress assaulting these ICE enforcement officers, including body slamming a female ICE officer,” McLaughlin said.
She later tweeted a video of the chaotic incident outside the Delaney Hall Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Newark.
“We will not tolerate assault against our ICE law enforcement agents. By members of Congress or anyone else,” McLauglin wrote in the post on X.
It's Time to Drop the Hammer: Charge and Expel Deranged, Violent Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIvers
As RedState reported, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who was arrested on site, tried to play the victim on CNN. Video then emerged showing that he breached a checkpoint and refused to leave after multiple requests.
The behavior of three Democrat congressional members was arguably even worse. Representatives Bonnie Watson Coleman, LaMonica McIver, and Rob Menendez Jr. could be seen on camera shoving ICE agents as they fought through the first checkpoint, with McIver appearing to even throw punches.
Naturally, she too played the victim, claiming that ICE agents "shoved her." She went on to paint herself as a fighter, just trying to conduct "oversight."
Rep. LaMonica McIver really went to town against ICE agents in Newark
By Andrea WidburgYesterday, news broke that a passel of Democrats—three Congresspeople and the Newark mayor—went all “insurrectiony” and tried to storm the Newark ICE facility. Newark’s mayor was arrested, but as of this writing, the congresspeople involved (Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Rob Menendez (D-NJ), and LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) were still free. However, a new video has emerged that makes it look as if federal prosecutors might at least want to think about investigating McIver, who really seems to have gotten into the swing of things, grabbing at, body slamming, and verbally abusing ICE agents. That’s just my take, of course. I’m not actually accusing her of anything.
You can reach your own conclusions by watching the bodycam video yourself:
Dem Mayor Arrested for Storming ICE Facility Plays the Victim on CNN, Then Damning Video Comes Out
Involved in the incident were Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rep. LaMonica McIver, and Rep. Rob Menendez Jr. Yes, the latter is the son of former Sen. Bob Menendez, who is currently in jail on a bribery conviction involving gold bars. All three Democrat House members attempted to shove their way through a group of ICE agents who were guarding the first checkpoint into the facility.
One Democrat was arrested, though. That would be Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who went even further in his confrontation with ICE agents. Naturally, after he was charged and released, he ran off to CNN to play the victim.
I'm SHOCKED A Democrat Lied
Democrats love to pretend the morons who take to the streets and encourage others to punch people are somehow an organic movement, but of course, they're not. We're finding out that nine times out of 10, someone somewhere is paying them to do it.
And that someone is usually a Soros.
Twitchy favorite @DataRepublican put together a thread on the violent, so-called anti-Nazi protest in New York City yesterday, and gosh, golly, gee, once again this was not organic at all.
Duh.
Working Families Party.
*cough cough Commies cough cough*
The Democrat-Media Codependency
If the 2024 election told us nothing else, it confirmed that the voters aren’t nearly as credulous as the Democrats and the corporate media believe them to be. Indeed, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center six weeks prior to the election, only 22 percent of American adults believed news organizations deal fairly with all sides. Ironically, considering that the news coverage of the Trump administration has been overwhelmingly negative, the primary beneficiaries of this brazenly biased reporting appear to have been President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
Despite questionable polls that purport to show President Trump and the GOP falling out of favor with the voters, both enjoy higher favorability ratings than the Democrats. According to RealClearPolitics, Trump currently stands at 45.4 percent. This does suggest that there has been some erosion, but it isn’t particularly alarming when compared with the abysmal ratings endured by prominent Democrats. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, for example, languishes at 28.0 percent. Likewise, the GOP’s favorability rating seems inauspicious at 42.2 percent until it is compared to the Democratic Party’s anemic 33.8 percent rating.
Far more important than such ephemeral polling, however, is the increasing tendency of voters to support the GOP — at the federal and state level. In addition to controlling the White House and Congress, the Republicans also enjoy governing trifectas in 23 states according to Ballotpedia. The Democrats hold trifectas in 15 states. As recently as 2010, the GOP held only 9 state trifectas and the Democrats held 16. Can this reversal of fortune really be attributed to voter distrust of the corporate media? Megan McArdle says yes in the Washington Post and leftist political scientist Yascha Mounk offers the same answer in a Substack essay:
Nonprofit Claiming ICE Operations ‘Terrorizing’ Nashville Previously Tapped by Biden Admin to Release Illegal Immigrants in Tennessee
“We are aware of several reports of heavy ICE and Tennessee Highway Patrol activity tonight,” wrote TIRRC in a Spanish-language post to Facebook made early on Friday morning. “It appears to be a big one. If you’re able, please stay home and remember your constitutional rights.”
Despite being a nonprofit, Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell referenced TIRRC in his press conference after the recent law enforcement operation when he explained their role in the city’s response.
While TIRRC now appears to be actively undermining the ICE and THP operation in Middle Tennessee, the group was previously considered a possible ally for ICE in 2022, under former President Joe Biden, when communications published by Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, who sued to stop the Biden administration from completing its plan to work with nonprofits and release illegal immigrants from a Louisiana detention facility into Tennessee.
“I’m following up on whether your organization or partner(s) could be interested in supporting released noncitizens,” wrote an ICE official to TIRRC on December 6, 2022.
TIRRC’s executive director replied by requesting a meeting for the next day. Additional emails show the meeting occurred and that TIRRC was willing to facilitate the releases for ICE.
Nashville Mayor Signs Executive Order to Create Early Warning System for Immigration Enforcement Operations
O’Connell appears to have actually amended his Executive Order 30, which is titled Communications Between Federal Immigration Authorities and the Metropolitan Government. The order mandates any communication to Nashville police, fire, emergency management, or emergency communications personnel by federal immigration law enforcement, or their federal agencies, be reported to the Mayor’s Office of New Americans.
The order also specifies that any communications between federal officials and “a Metro non-emergency services department or office,” be reported to the mayor’s office.
Notably, Nashville Director of Law Wally Dietz recently confirmed that a DHS official called emergency services in Nashville to request additional patrols outside a federal facility days ahead of the recent immigration enforcement operation between Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), but that the request was not shared with Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) until the time the DHS official requested.
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Is Nashville's economy that dependent on illegal aliens?
Do they really need the illegal work force that badly?
How are the democrats using this to defraud the taxpaying citizens, because money , dirty money has to be involved somewhere if the Democrats are that set on keeping the invaders here.
Do they really need the illegal work force that badly?
How are the democrats using this to defraud the taxpaying citizens, because money , dirty money has to be involved somewhere if the Democrats are that set on keeping the invaders here.