Trump administration threatens to arrest House Democrats over ICE facility incident
Trump administration threatens to arrest House Democrats over ICE facility incident
Democratic members of Congress who were part of a scuffle with law enforcement officers at an ICE facility in New Jersey may face arrests, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Axios Saturday.
Why it matters: It would be a major escalation in the Trump administration's arrests of politicians and other public servants, including the mayor of Newark and a judge in Milwaukee.
- DHS is accusing the House Democrats of assaulting law enforcement. The lawmakers say they were the ones who were assaulted.
- The lawmakers involved in the incident: Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.), Rob Menendez (D-N.J.) and LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.).
Good on them for showing the fuck up. ICE needs to be banned from having any jurisdiction under local, county, or state law.
Yes, that's not a power that was ever given to the states, but nobody ever gave the Federal Government the power to abandon the 5th amendment and send people off to die in a foreign megaprison.
Whatever happens, ICE cannot continue to exist after this is over. The whole fucking agency needs to be dismantled, and not one single agent should ever work in law enforcement or security again, if they can even see daylight after being held to account for their crimes.
Good to hear that there are zero consequences so far for the ICE guys
Trump starting to arrest his political oppenents. Germany 1933, chile 1973, so many other historical examples...
Here you are, USA. Enjoy the ride.
The Judiciary will have a fucking field day...
...until they get disappeared by ICE.
They released some body cam footage but it doesn’t show that so I’m assuming they aren’t releasing the video of the ICE agent getting body slammed by a Congressperson because it’s rad as fuck and that Congressperson would instantly be named Speaker of the House, Smack Down Champion, and a Cardinal by Chicago Pope regardless of their faith tradition.
Or maybe it just didn’t actually happen.
The rabid Congresswoman that did the alleged assaulting:
Contrast with these softies got their asses handed to them
This checks out!
Now this is a SLAMming I can get behind. Get SLAMMED, idiots.
She body slammed one and threw the rest off the prison roof like when Undertaker threw Mankind off the cage in that Hell in the Cell match.
“God almighty! God almighty! As God as my witness, he is broken in half!”
Fascists are the biggest cry bullies.
The Atlantic has a great piece this month about how we saying the judicial system split in two, Watch for more of this and increasing penalties, some of them won’t be let out of jail eventually. And we’ll just be disappearing our political opponents.
Democrats didn't have the will to arrest Trump, and now guess what...
Good thing Merrick Garland dragged his feet, probably so the democrats could fundraise on Trump.
And Schumer will send another strongly worded letter.
Freaking ass had the chance to alter history potentially and he fucked it up.
Spineless Democracts "Relax everyone. It is totally normal in a healthy democracy when the Executive branch, in this cause President Trump is threatening to arrest Legislators."
Are these spineless democrats in the room with us now?
Are they whispering this into your ear?
While, in front of your eyes, in this article, actual democrats in the real world are showing the fuck up and getting arrested?
There is a definetely a faction of Democracts who are willing to fight back. It seems that facton is the minority while the majority sit on their ass.
Are these spineless democrats in the room with us now?
I mean, this is lemmy. So yes.
threatening to arrestLegislators...actually arresting Legislators
Yes! The take home message of this article is that Democrats are spineless and wouldn't risk themselves to stand up against fascism. You put it so succinctly that I felt the need to highlight your comment.
We need to air as much ire against Democrats as possible and consider sitting out the next election if they don't start doing something to try to stop these illegal detentions by that other party that doesn't really need to be our focus right now.
Oh right, between ICE agents and house politicians, the latter really are the ones who everyone would believe to be the ones physically assaulting someone.
I know the police aren't allowed to detain a congress person heading to DC for congress business, does that not apply when they are at a federally run facility to conduct official business? They let them tour eventually so obviously they are aware of why they showed up, contradicting any claims they make about unlawful entry or whatever excuse they come up with.
They need to pull a "No u" with dRump and release an arrest warrant for the treasonous 47th and his goons. 😬
Too bad they don't have the balls to do things even at these level... Hopefully they get their heads out their ass before it's too late.
Is there no immunity of parlamentarians in the US? Not a rhetoric question, I just don't know.
Unless they're on their way to a session of Congress (in which case they get to ignore a multitude of vehicular laws), not really LEGALLY. De facto, they've been immune from prosecution in a lot of cases (and moreover immune to actual consequences) because congresspeople are, by and large, wealthy, white, and male.
Ready the muskets.
Democrats: break the law
Trump: "Well ok arrest them"
Democrats: Pikachu
When the law is unethical, breaking it is a moral duty. The democrats going to jail now have infinitely more spine than the republicans who hurried off to the underground tunnels during J6 only to turn around and claim it was a totally peaceful tour.
Mmmmm, boots taste delicious, don't you think?
Republicans: break the law
OsrsNeedsF2P: “The democrats broke the law!”
Please stop assaulting me, you’re breaking the law.
See how easy it is to just say things?