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House Republican Rep. Buddy Carter is introducing a bill to have the three Democrats who "stormed" a Newark, New Jersey, ICE facility stripped of committee assignments.
The resolution would remove Watson Coleman from Appropriations, Menendez from Energy and Commerce, and McIver from Homeland Security and Small Business.
They don’t deserve to be in the House,” Noem said of the New Jersey lawmakers involved in the incident. “They should be censured by it.”
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, arrested for trespassing at a federal immigration facility last week, compared his confrontation with federal authorities to the biblical King David's trials.
The head of the Department of Homeland Security's immigration enforcement agency on Wednesday recognized the right of members of Congress to visit detention facilities, even unannounced, while the department's secretary said members of Congress should have requested a tour of an immigration detention facility in New Jersey where a skirmish broke out last week.
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) condemned the recent “interference and grandstanding” displayed by some Democratic lawmakers, arguing that any “physical altercation” with law enforcement is unacceptable. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested Friday for attempting to “storm” a U.
Tensions are rising in New Jersey after Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested outside a federal immigration detention center