Dhs Says ‘arrests Are Still On The Table’ After New Jersey House Dems Caught On Camera ‘storming’ Ice Facility

A trio of House Democrats from New Jersey whose sojourn to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention installation went disconnected nan rails Friday and devolved into a scuffle pinch national agents could look arrest, according to nan Department of Homeland Security.

The lawmakers, Rep. LaMonica McIver, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, and Rep. Robert Menendez, allegedly stormed nan Delaney Hall Detention Center, on pinch Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who was arrested and charged pinch trespassing. Authorities declare an ICE supplier was assaulted successful nan confrontation, which was caught connected camera.

"If it was a emblematic U.S. national and they tried to large wind into a detention installation that's lodging vulnerable criminals aliases immoderate personification astatine all, they would beryllium arrested," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told told "Fox News Live" big Kevin Corke Saturday. "Just because you are a personnel of Congress ,or conscionable because you're a nationalist official, does not mean you are supra nan law."

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"If you battle a rule enforcement officer, we will besides make judge you reply to justice," she continued. "So I deliberation that arrests are still connected nan array for this. This is an ongoing investigation."

DHS reportedly has assemblage camera footage of Congress members assaulting ICE officers, "including body-slamming a female ICE officer," Axios reported.

A group of protesters, including nan lawmakers, stormed nan installation arsenic a autobus of detainees was entering nan information gate, according to a news merchandise from nan Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Following nan incident, McIver wrote successful an X post that ICE "shoved" her and "manhandled" Watson Coleman.

Rep. LaMonica McIver tin beryllium seen wearing reddish successful this screenshot from nan assemblage camera footage DHS provided to Fox News (Department of Homeland Security)

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During a property conference, McIver escalated her claims, saying she was "assaulted by aggregate ICE officers while location board of ICE watched it happen."

DHS footage posted to X connected Saturday appears to show McIver barreling unprovoked done rule enforcement adjacent nan gate.

"WATCH: US Congresswoman, LaMonica McIver (wearing a reddish blazer), storms nan gross of Delaney Hall Detention Center ASSAULTING an ICE agent," DHS captioned nan video.

DHS officials person not yet confirmed immoderate pending charges against those accused of storming nan facility.

Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., is seen connected camera apparently scuffling pinch rule enforcement officials extracurricular an ICE installation successful Newark, N.J., connected Friday. (Department of Homeland Security)

Watson Coleman, who besides accused an ICE supplier of "shov[ing]" her, wrote successful an X post that she, McIver, and Menendez visited nan installation connected Friday "to workout our oversight authority arsenic Members of Congress."

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DHS officials confirmed those being held astatine nan contested installation see "murderers, terrorists, kid rapists and MS-13 pack members."

"Contrary to a property connection put retired by DHS we did not ‘storm’ nan detention center," Coleman wrote. "The writer of that property merchandise was truthful unfamiliar pinch nan facts connected nan ground[s] that they didn’t moreover correctly count nan number of Representatives present."

Baraka was handcuffed, detained for 5 hours, and formally charged pinch trespassing astatine nan facility.

"They did this connected a complaint of trespass, a municipal complaint which would usually beryllium handled by measurement of a ticket," Baraka's attorneys wrote successful a connection provided to Fox News. "His consequent merchandise by nan Court demonstrates that location was nary logic to judge that this well-known and wide respected nationalist charismatic was either a formation consequence aliases a threat to nan organization that he served."

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Baraka's attorneys maintained that nan politician was exercising his first amendment authorities and "acted passim pinch calm, restraint, and dignity, successful a law-abiding manner."

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)

They besides accused U.S. Attorney for nan District of New Jersey Alina Habba of "repeatedly" making "inaccurate, inflammatory, and unfair" nationalist statements.

In an X station Friday, she wrote, "The Mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, committed trespass and ignored aggregate warnings from Homeland Security Investigations to region himself from nan ICE detention halfway successful Newark, New Jersey this afternoon. He has willingly chosen to disregard nan law. That will not guidelines successful this state. He has been taken into custody. NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW."

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Baraka's attorneys seemingly accused Habba of "falsely ma[king] nationalist statements accusing nan Mayor of violating nan ‘rule of law’" and "improperly claim[ing] that he is blameworthy of nan trespass complaint revenge against him."

DHS referred inquiries from Fox News Digital to nan U.S. Attorney for nan District of New Jersey, who did not instantly respond.