Rep. LaMonica McIver from New Jersey has been charged with assault by the Department of Justice after participating in an oversight visit to a migrant detention center. The charges allege she impeded law enforcement during a visit to GEO Group's facility in Newark, which has faced legal and ethical scrutiny. McIver refutes these claims, calling them a political maneuver designed to undermine Congressional oversight. She emphasizes that her intent was to conduct proper oversight and criticizes the actions of ICE agents during the visit, particularly in relation to the arrest of Mayor Baraka.
We were fulfilling our lawful oversight responsibilities, as members of Congress have done many times before, and our visit should have been peaceful and short, instead, ICE agents created an unnecessary and unsafe confrontation.
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