Newark mayor Las Baraka has arrested and sued at an ice facility.
Newark Mayor Las Baraka has announced he is suing two federal employees who allegedly ordered arrests at an ice facility in New Jersey.
Rep. Lamonica Mciver, D-New Jersey, was charged with three counts in connection with a law enforcement conflict at the Newark Immigration Detention Center last month.
Interim US lawyer Alina Haba announced the indictment on June 10th.
“People are free to express their opinions in favor or against a particular policy, but they should not do so in a way that puts law enforcement agencies and the communities in which those officers serve,” Haba said in a post in X.
McQuiver was visiting the facility with Bonnie Watson Coleman and Rob Menendez. An argument broke out after officers arrested Newark Mayor Las Baraka.
According to criminal charges against her, McQuiver has since been allegedly “cried her forearm” by immigration officers. If convicted, she could face up to 17 years in prison on all three counts.
Lawmakers denied the charges and said they were unfair.
“The facts of this case will prove that I am simply doing my job and will reveal these cases as to what they are: a brave attempt at political intimidation,” McQuiber said in a statement responding to the charges.
The law allows members of the Congress to visit unpublished immigration detention facilities.
Paul Fishman, an attorney for McQuiver who served as a US lawyer in New Jersey during the Obama administration, said “the legal process will expose this prosecution as to what it really is – political retaliation against a dedicated civil servant who refuses to move away from her oversight responsibility.”
The indictment was voted by New Jersey voters to poll to select Democratic and Republican candidates for governors. Baraka, whose arrests caused a standoff with McQuiver’s officials, ran to a Democrat nomination, but lost to Rep. Mikie Sheryl.
Donation: Sarah Wire, USA Today; Katie Sobko, northjersey.com
