Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says There Will Be Hell To Pay If Dems Are Arrested For ICE Protest
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"You lay a finger on Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman or any of the Representatives that were there… we’re going to have a problem," Ocasio-Cortez warned.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) had a stern message for Republican officials threatening to arrest lawmakers who were involved in a confrontation at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Newark, New Jersey.
The congresswoman accused President Donald Trump’s administration of illegally preventing a group of Garden State Democrats from touring the facility, where Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested for trespassing on Friday.
Afterwards, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said the government was looking into arresting three congress members who joined Baraka during the visit.
“They’re using public intimidation because they know that they cannot come for us all,” Ocasio-Cortez said during a livestream on social media Saturday night.
She argued that the protesting politicians were exercising “their legal and constitutional obligation to conduct oversight,” and it was Trump officials who were actually in the wrong.
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