Dhs Chief Noem Accuses Lawmakers Of 'committing Felonies' At Newark Ice Facility: 'they Should Be Censured'

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem connected Tuesday called retired members of Congress for allegedly assaulting rule enforcement officers during a heated altercation extracurricular a Newark migration detention halfway past week. 

Noem criticized nan lawmakers for defending their actions arsenic a expected "oversight." Appearing connected ‘Jesse Watters Prime,’ Noem accused nan lawmakers of committing criminal behavior. 

"This wasn't oversight. This was committing felonies. This was going retired and attacking group who guidelines up for nan norm of law. And it was perfectly horrible," Noem said.  

"I can't judge they enactment for illustration this and past they take sides it. And past they're doing these acts of unit to get group retired of detention centers that are rapists, that are murderers, that are group that are [from] overseas violent organizations that person been retired location victimizing our communities successful nan United States of America," she went on.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called retired members of Congress for allegedly assaulting rule enforcement officers during a heated altercation extracurricular a Newark migration detention halfway past Friday. (Secretary Noem X)

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U.S. Reps. Rob Menendez Jr., Bonnie Watson Coleman and LaMonica McIver – each New Jersey Democrats – stormed ICE's Delaney Hall detention facility’s gross successful Newark connected Friday, demanding they beryllium allowed to behaviour an "oversight visit."

"These members of Congress storming into a detention installation goes beyond bizarre governmental stunt and puts nan information of our rule enforcement agents and nan detainees astatine risk," a DHS connection to Fox News said. "Members of Congress are not supra nan rule and cannot illegally break into detention facilities. Had these members requested a tour, we would person facilitated a circuit of nan facility."

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visits nan Mariposa Port of Entry, Saturday, March 15, 2025, successful Nogales, Ariz. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The 3 lawmakers were extracurricular nan installation pinch a group of protesters erstwhile nan gates opened to let an ICE autobus in. The lawmakers past rushed done nan gates and past security, DHS said.

"What are they trying to do?" Noem questioned. "Release these group backmost into nan state truthful that location could beryllium much Laken Rileys? So location tin beryllium much Jocelyn Nungarays? I conscionable don't understand what their constituent is. They person wholly mislaid their minds."

Reps. Robert Menendez, LaMonica McIver, and Bonnie Watson Coleman are being targeted successful a caller House GOP resolution (Getty Images)

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She called for nan trio to beryllium censured and formally rebuked by nan House of Representatives.

"It’s astounding to maine that personification would moreover ballot for personification to put them successful a spot of activity erstwhile they perpetuate thing arsenic hypocritical and arsenic criminal arsenic what these individuals did," she said. 

"I dream that nan remainder of nan members of nan House of Representatives will clasp them accountable," Noem continued. "They shouldn’t beryllium allowed to beryllium connected nan committees that they’re connected — successful fact, 1 of them (McIver) is expected to beryllium conducting oversight complete ICE and alternatively she’s assaulting them." 

"They don’t merit to beryllium successful nan House," Noem added. "They should beryllium censured by it." 

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., accused an ICE supplier of shoving her during nan incident. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Take Back nan Court Action Fund)

In a property convention earlier, Coleman denied nan accusations that they were trying to illegally participate nan installation and claimed that ICE was "out of control." McIver said nan 3 lawmakers had waited much than 2 hours to summation entree to nan installation to behaviour an oversight visit. She said each 3 of them were besides assaulted by ICE personnel.

"There are group who are expected to beryllium officers, who are expected to protect us, and they person done nary of that," McIver told reporters. "If they tin dainty 3 members of Congress for illustration that, conscionable ideate really they tin dainty group connected nan thoroughfare each and each day, some undocumented and group who are citizens present successful this country."

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McIver doubled down successful a station connected X, saying that "none of this had to happen."

"We arrived astatine Delaney Hall to do our jobs — period," she wrote. "Instead of facilitating legislature oversight, arsenic they are obligated to do, ICE created chaos."

Fox News' Bill Melugin and Louis Casiano contributed to this report.