Republicans are making menacing threats towards a trio of Democratic lawmakers who visited an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility to conduct routine oversight, saying the three may face censure, expulsion from Congress, and even be arrested, within the newest signal that Republicans are descending into fascism in President Donald Trump’s second time period.
On Tuesday night time, Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem accused the three Democratic lawmakers—New Jersey Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, LaMonica McIver, and Robert Menendez Jr.—of committing “felonies” on the ICE facility in New Jersey, when actually it was the ICE brokers who provoked the scene by arresting Newark Mayor Ras Baraka.
“We had members of Congress assaulting law enforcement officers. They were cooperating with criminals to create criminal acts, and then they’re saying that they were providing oversight. This wasn’t oversight. This was committing felonies,” Noem mentioned in an look on Fox Information.
A Division of Homeland Safety spokesperson additionally mentioned final week that arresting the three Democrats was “on the table.”
In the meantime, Republican Rep. Buddy Carter of Georgia launched laws to kick the three lawmakers off of their committees. His laws is probably going an effort to spice up his Trumpian bona fides as he runs for the GOP Senate nomination in Georgia, to tackle Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff subsequent November.
And Home Speaker Mike Johnson mentioned Wednesday that Home Republicans may go additional by presumably expelling the three lawmakers from Congress as a result of they visited the ICE facility.
“It’s pretty clear that the law was violated,” Johnson mentioned at a information convention on Capitol Hill. “You would possibly’ve seen the Wisconsin decide that was making an attempt to hide the unlawful alien … I’m informed that she’ll be dealing with doubtlessly six years in jail and $350,000 in fines as a result of she obstructed the proceedings, obstructed justice. … So look, what these Home Democrats did is in that very same lane, the identical vein, of what the decide is being indicted for. So I feel there’s some authorized ramifications to play out right here.”
In fact, the Democratic lawmakers have been legally allowed to enter the ICE facility for oversight, however they have been being blocked by the ICE officers on the facility. The scenario escalated when ICE then arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, resulting in the chaotic confrontation. Finally, the lawmakers have been allowed to enter for his or her oversight tour.
The Democratic lawmakers being focused for his or her ICE go to mentioned as a lot.
“We have no idea what they have in mind, other than to create an environment of intimidation just by claiming that perhaps we might be subject to arrest,” Watson Coleman informed CNN. “Nothing happened other than the chaos that they created themselves.”
In the end, Republicans are large mad that Democrats try to name consideration to the injustices in Trump and the GOP’s immigration agenda, and thus are accusing Democrats of performing stunts. In fact, Republicans love themselves an immigration stunt.
Noem has been dressing up in costume and touring the globe to make herself appear to be a giant, scary immigration cop. She and different GOP members of Congress have been visiting the Salvadoran jail that Trump has deported immigrants to with out due course of, creating their very own model of torture porn within the course of.
Democrats known as out that hypocrisy at a Wednesday listening to on Capitol Hill, the place Noem was testifying in regards to the DHS funds.
“Secretary Noem, I’m glad you found time among your many photo ops and costume changes to testify about why President Trump is seeking more taxpayer dollars,” Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi mentioned sarcastically.
Rep. Eric Swalwell, Democrat of California, made an analogous jab at ICE Barbie.
“I’m a former prosecutor. I have put people away for life sentences who are gang members. I don’t need to wear costumes to show how tough I am. What makes me different from you is when I put those people away, I did it with the weight of the law behind me,” Swalwell mentioned on the listening to.
Ouch.
