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A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security on Saturday suggested the Trump administration could pursue arrests of the House Democrats involved in an incident at a New Jersey Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility on Friday and accused them of assaulting ICE officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think that we should let viewers know there will likely be more coming,\u201d DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told CNN on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe actually have body camera footage of some of these members of Congress assaulting our ICE enforcement officers, including body-slamming a female ICE officer,\u201d McLaughlin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her comments were in response to a question from CNN\u2019s Victor Blackwell, who asked whether others were arrested Friday in addition to Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who was charged with trespassing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked whether that meant a member of Congress could be arrested in connection with Friday\u2019s events, McLaughlin told Blackwell, \u201cThis is an ongoing investigation, and that is definitely on the table.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She added that ICE was in possession of video evidence documenting the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later on Saturday, McLaughlin posted a video on X showing chaos outside of the detention facility, writing, \u201cWe will not tolerate assault against our ICE law enforcement agents. By members of Congress or anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her remarks came one day after three members of Congress \u2014 Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rob Menendez and LaMonica McIver, all New Jersey Democrats \u2014 visited the Delaney Hall detention facility to conduct oversight, according to statements from two of the lawmakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs Members of Congress, we have a legal right to conduct oversight at any DHS facility without prior notice, as we have already done twice this year. Throughout every step of this visit, ICE attempted to intimidate everyone involved and impede our ability to conduct oversight,\u201d Menendez said in a statement Friday. \u201cThis is like nothing I\u2019ve ever seen before, and I am shocked and disturbed that something like this happened in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And McIver said in a statement that the lawmakers were met with \u201ccontempt, disrespect, and aggression from ICE.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom roughing up members of congress to arresting the mayor of our state\u2019s largest city, there is no version of today that does not show the blatant abuses of power of the Trump administration,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of the three members of Congress mentioned seeing any kind of violence against ICE officers during their visit to the facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in a post on X on Saturday, Watson Coleman denied McLaughlin\u2019s allegations, writing, \u201cThe notion that I or any of my colleagues \u2018body slammed\u2019 armed federal officers is absurd. DHS is lying because they know their agents were out of line.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey have to resort to lies because their conduct is indefensible on the merits. They can threaten us all they like, but their lies are still lies. We will not be intimidated,\u201d the congresswoman added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesperson for DHS referred NBC News to the U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey for comment. A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney, Alina Habba, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spokespeople for Menendez and McIver also did not immediately respond to a request for comment about McLaughlin\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baraka appeared on CNN directly after McLaughlin and called her allegations of assault \u201cridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m waiting for them to show a video,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baraka pointed out that Watson Coleman, 80, is an older woman, \u201cwho probably couldn\u2019t lift any of them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNone of those people body-slammed any officer,\u201d Baraka added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Newark mayor also denied the charges that he was arrested on on Friday, telling Blackwell, \u201cI was not trespassing at all. I mean, we\u2019re in court, so we\u2019ll argue that in the court.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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