Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says There Will Be Hell To Pay If Dems Are Arrested For ICE Protest

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Huff Post

May 11, 2025, 01:41 PM EDT


Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) had a stern message for Republican officials threatening to arrest lawmakers who were involved in a confrontation at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Newark, New Jersey. The congresswoman accused President Donald Trump’s administration of illegally preventing a group of Garden State Democrats from touring the facility, where Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested for trespassing on Friday.

Afterwards, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said the government was looking into arresting three congress members who joined Baraka during the visit. “They’re using public intimidation because they know that they cannot come for us all,” Ocasio-Cortez said during a livestream on social media Saturday night.

She argued that the protesting politicians were exercising “their legal and constitutional obligation to conduct oversight,” and it was Trump officials who were actually in the wrong. “If anyone is breaking the law in this situation, it’s not members of Congress, it’s the Department of Homeland Security,” she said. “It’s people like Tom Homan and Secretary Kristi Noem.”

Ocasio-Cortez then warned, “You lay a finger on Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman or any of the Representatives that were there… we’re going to have a problem.”

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/aoc-defends-democrats-new-jersey-ice-protest_n_68202f8fe4b0d06d2434087c

[bucolic_frolic]

1. That's throwing down the gauntlet

and almost guarantees arrests in the weeks ahead, in my humble opinion. Trump won't let that stand.

Things are coming to a head. June 14 will be a humdinger.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. June 14 will be a humdinger, but not the head. It will be a Big step up, but protests will get bigger still. . . . nt

[JohnSJ]

2. I hate to break it to anybody, but unless the courts do their job and support the Constitution, and that is

far from certain, I am not sure where this "hell to pay" will be coming from?

[Irish_Dem]

3. What will Congress do if they start getting arrested by Trump?

[ReRe]

5. Probably nothing, if only Dem Congressmen/Senators are arrested. eom

[Irish_Dem]

6. GOP congress would love to see their Dem colleagues behind bars.

The US has become a third country hell hole.

[ReRe]

7. You bet your sweet bippy. They HATE Democrats. Hate. Hate. Hate!

[Irish_Dem]

8. The GOP/MAGAs hate most Americans.

[Chi67]

9. She's right

That will go to the Supreme Court. And I honestly think the Supremes will be on the side of the Dems. It's a constitutional issue, and a slam dunk.

[OldBaldy1701E]

10. Yeah, just as I thought there was little to no way that orange gibbon had fooled enough Americans to get elected again.

But, here we are...

[Exp]

14. Yep. nt

[ImNotGod]

11. no more strongly worded letters

our party needs to go medieval on the fascist asses.

[PSPS]

12. LOL. Yeah, sure. Blah blah blah. Why isn't there already "Hell To Pay" now?

This meaningless bloviating has become tiresome.

[Bengus81]

13. Bring it butch blonde..........

We have the Constitution,your a MAGA nut job. See ya at the SC.