Dem Rep McIver expected to make first court appearance after Newark incident

New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver volition marque her archetypal tribunal quality Wednesday aft being charged with assaulting 2 national agents astatine an migrant detention installation successful Newark earlier this month. 

McIver was determination with 2 different members of Congress connected May 9 to behaviour what they claimed were their congressionally-mandated oversight duties, arsenic was Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who was subsequently arrested pursuing the incidental but aboriginal had his charges dropped. 

The Democrat volition present look successful beforehand of a United States Magistrate Judge for the District of New Jersey astatine 11 a.m. and beryllium work her rights and charges. The justice volition past determine her bail package. 

"I deliberation the charges are absurd. You know, it's ridiculous. I was determination to bash my occupation on with my different colleagues. We person done this before. This is our work to do. It's successful our occupation statement to person oversight implicit a facility. And the full concern was escalated by ICE," McIver said during an quality connected CNN Tuesday. 

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Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., exits the grounds astatine Delancey Hall ICE detention situation connected Friday, May 9, 2025 successful Newark, New Jersey.  (AP/Angelina Katsanis)

"They caused the confrontation. Homeland came and caused this chaos that we see. It was a precise tense situation, but it could person been easy not, it could've easy not happened. They had each accidental to not let this to happen. It was precise unnecessary. And it just, erstwhile again, we were determination to bash our jobs," she added. "And if I'm going to beryllium charged with a transgression for doing my job, it conscionable speaks to wherever we're headed successful this state and what we are dealing with arsenic leaders and arsenic legislature members, you know, present successful this country." 

A charging document cites bodycam footage from instrumentality enforcement officers who recorded events arsenic McIver and 2 different New Jersey lawmakers stormed the ICE facility. Prosecutors accidental the archetypal serviceman McIver allegedly assaulted was a Homeland Security Investigations agent, and the 2nd was an ICE agent. 

The Justice Department accuses McIver of having "slammed her forearm into the assemblage of a uniformed HSI cause and reached retired and tried to restrain the cause by forcibly grabbing him." 

The charging papers besides states that McIver "pushed an ICE serviceman & utilized her forearms to forcibly onslaught the agent." 

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New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver was charged connected Monday with allegedly assaulting instrumentality enforcement officers extracurricular an ICE detention installation earlier this month. (Getty Images/Department of Homeland Security)

McIver rejected the charges successful a nationalist statement, arguing they are "purely political." 

"Earlier this month, I joined my colleagues to inspect the attraction of ICE detainees astatine Delaney Hall successful my district," she wrote. "We were fulfilling our lawful oversight responsibilities, arsenic members of Congress person done galore times before, and our sojourn should person been peaceful and short. Instead, ICE agents created an unnecessary and unsafe confrontation erstwhile they chose to apprehension Mayor Baraka." 

Witnesses told The Associated Press that the apprehension happened aft Baraka attempted to articulation McIver and New Jersey Reps. Robert Menendez and Bonnie Watson Coleman erstwhile entering the facility. When national officials denied Baraka access, an statement past broke out, the AP reported, citing an activistic with the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice. 

Rep. LaMonica McIver demands the merchandise of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka aft his apprehension portion protesting extracurricular an ICE installation connected May 9, 2025 successful Newark, New Jersey. (AP/Angelina Katsanis)

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Prosecutors said McIver helped make a "human shield" and blocked agents from handcuffing Baraka aft helium ignored galore warnings to permission the spot and was told helium would beryllium arrested. 

Fox News Digital’s Anders Hagstrom and Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.