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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.).
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[–] martin4598@lemm.ee 11 points 14 hours ago

Trump starting to arrest his political oppenents. Germany 1933, chile 1973, so many other historical examples...

Here you are, USA. Enjoy the ride.

[–] SpaceShort@feddit.uk 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

If they get arrested, time to surround the facility in which they are held and prevent anyone from entering and leaving until they are released.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, wait until it happens, that always works

[–] SpaceShort@feddit.uk 3 points 5 hours ago

We can already do mass protests in the meantime.

[–] Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago

Good to hear that there are zero consequences so far for the ICE guys

[–] blinx615@lemmy.ml 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The Judiciary will have a fucking field day...

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

...until they get disappeared by ICE.

[–] dzso@lemmy.world 78 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Democrats didn't have the will to arrest Trump, and now guess what...

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 13 points 20 hours ago

Good thing Merrick Garland dragged his feet, probably so the democrats could fundraise on Trump.

[–] dryfter@lemm.ee 60 points 1 day ago

And Schumer will send another strongly worded letter.

Freaking ass had the chance to alter history potentially and he fucked it up.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 133 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 161 points 2 days ago (13 children)

The rabid Congresswoman that did the alleged assaulting:

Contrast with these softies got their asses handed to them

This checks out!

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 4 points 20 hours ago

Now this is a SLAMming I can get behind. Get SLAMMED, idiots.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 70 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

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.

https://youtu.be/9hMp65SzyTU

“God almighty! God almighty! As God as my witness, he is broken in half!”

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[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 103 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 49 points 2 days ago (29 children)

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."

[–] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago

~~threatening to arrest~~ Legislators

...actually arresting Legislators

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago

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.

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