As RedState reported, things got spicy in New Jersey on Friday after a group of Democrat politicians tried to break into an ICE detention facility.
Involved in the incident were Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rep. LaMonica McIver, and Rep. Rob Menendez Jr. Yes, the latter is the son of former Sen. Bob Menendez, who is currently in jail on a bribery conviction involving gold bars. All three Democrat House members attempted to shove their way through a group of ICE agents who were guarding the first checkpoint into the facility.
One Democrat was arrested, though. That would be Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who went even further in his confrontation with ICE agents. Naturally, after he was charged and released, he ran off to CNN to play the victim.
COLLINS: Had there been warnings? What had happened?
BARAKA: Well, absolutely not, well, I mean, we could, we could, the reality is that Alina Habba wasn’t there. The U.S. attorney wasn’t there. She doesn’t know what happened. Clearly, that is not the context of what happened. I was there for over an hour in that space, and nobody ever told me to move. I was in there for over an hour, not a single person, not an officer from ICE, not any of the security guards. Nobody told me to leave that place.
Somebody from Homeland Security came in the end and began to escalate the situation, and we wound up being where we are today, and that’s frankly the extent of it. I didn’t go there to break any laws, I didn’t break any laws. I was there as the Mayor of the City, exercising my right and duty as an elected official, supporting our Congress people, preparing for a press conference that was supposed to happen there. I did not enter that place unlawfully, I did not break any laws so she was not there, so she should get some better information.