Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) warned Trump administration officials that they would soon face a "problem" if they continued arresting her fellow Democratic colleagues.
Ocasio-Cortez specifically called out Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and "Border Czar" Tom Homan, and accused the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of using “public intimidation."
“If anyone’s breaking the law in this situation, it’s not members of Congress, it’s the Department of Homeland Security,” she said during an Instagram video posted Sunday, first highlighted by Fox News. “It’s people like Tom Homan and Secretary Kristi Noem.”
"You lay a finger on someone, on Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman… or any of the representatives that were there, you lay a finger on them, we are going to have a problem,” Ocasio-Cortez added. “Because the people who are breaking the law are the people not abiding by it.”
Her warning comes after DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said three Democratic New Jersey members of Congress — Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rob Menendez and LaMonica McIver —could be arrested after a visit to Delaney Hall, a New Jersey detention center for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), last week.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) was arrested during the visit after refusing to leave the facility.
ICE officials reported that Coleman, Menendez and LaMonica McIver were pushing and shoving among the people in the crowd outside the facility, though Coleman denies the accusation.
Delaney Hall has become a contentious point in New Jersey, with Trump administration officials saying the facility is critical in its effort to detain violent immigrants in the country illegally. However, Baraka and other local officials argued that the administration has not secured proper permits to house migrants at the facility.
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