New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver returns to ICE facility after assault charges to push for its closure
Source: msn/Politico
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NEWARK, New Jersey — More than six months after a chaotic visit to a New Jersey immigrant detention center that resulted in federal assault charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver, she and her colleagues returned to the facility to advocate for its closure.
McIver, along with Reps. Rob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), toured Delaney Hall on Tuesday for another oversight visit. That came days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that Jean Wilson Brutus, a 41-year-old from Haiti who was detained at Delaney Hall, died a day after the agency took him into custody.
The visit was the first for McIver since May, when she, along with Menendez and Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.), sought to conduct an oversight visit that turned into a high-profile scrum: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested and McIver was charged with assaulting law enforcement officers. Baraka’s charge was dismissed, while McIver’s case has yet to go to trial; she has pleaded not guilty and accused the Trump administration of “political intimidation.”
McIver — a first-term member of Congress whose district encompasses Newark — told reporters Tuesday that she was the one who was assaulted and that the facility should be shut down. She added that being back at Delaney Hall was “traumatic” but that she will “continue to show up to call out what is happening in this facility.”
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All thanks to the hateful and stupid jackasses who either voted for that maniac or sat on their hands because they can't figure out how the real fucking world works. 
