House Dems urge GOP to condemn DHS for handcuffing Rep Nadler staffer, order Noem to testify

Democrats connected the House Judiciary Committee sent a missive Tuesday requesting House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to condemn the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for "forcefully" entering Rep. Jerry Nadler’s legislature bureau and handcuffing a subordinate of his staff. 

The letter, sent by Nadler and chap House Judiciary Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., disputes DHS' assertion that agents were doing a "security check" astatine Nadler's office. 

"We truthful impulse you to bring the Secretary of the DHS, Kristi Noem, earlier our Committee instantly to reply our questions astir her agency’s irresponsible and unsafe actions," the House Democrats said successful the letter.  

Nadler and Raskin said the video released from the incidental reveals agents handcuffed a staffer and demanded entree to "non-public areas" wrong Nadler's bureau without "asking astir the information and information of his staff."

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Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., left, sent a missive to Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, urging him to condemn DHS.  (AP/Getty Images)

"These types of intimidation tactics are wholly unwarranted and cannot beryllium tolerated. The determination to participate a legislature bureau and detain a legislature unit subordinate demonstrates a profoundly troubling disregard for due ineligible boundaries," Nadler and Raskin said. 

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The House Democrats are urging Jordan to condemn the incidental and requesting DHS Secretary Kristi Noem attest earlier the House Judiciary Committee. 

"We telephone connected you, arsenic Chairman of the House Committee connected the Judiciary, to condemn this assertive affront to the separation of powers and the information of Members of Congress, our staff, and our constituents," Nadler and Raskin said. 

DHS antecedently told Fox News Digital the Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers who entered Nadler's bureau were responding to reports that protesters were wrong Nadler's territory bureau successful Manhattan. There was a protestation extracurricular an migration courthouse successful the aforesaid installation arsenic Nadler's office. 

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., appears during a hearing.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

"Based connected earlier incidents successful a adjacent facility, FPS officers were acrophobic astir the information of the national employees successful the bureau and went to the determination to guarantee the information and wellbeing of those present," a Homeland Security spokesperson told Fox News Digital. 

"Officers identified themselves and explained their intent to behaviour a information check. However, 1 idiosyncratic became verbally confrontational and physically blocked entree to the office," the spokesperson added. "The officers past detained the idiosyncratic successful the hallway for the intent of completing the information check. All were released without further incident."

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visits the Mariposa Port of Entry connected March 15, 2025, successful Nogales, Ariz. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The House Democrats refuted the spokesperson's assertion successful the missive and criticized the incidental arsenic a larger contented wrong President Donald Trump's crackdown connected amerciable immigration. 

"Sadly, this incidental is portion of a broader signifier by President Donald J. Trump and DHS of utilizing unlawful, chaotic, and reckless tactics successful communities crossed America, arsenic they endanger and intimidate children, members of the clergy, students, arsenic good arsenic Members of Congress and their staffs," they said. 

Nadler slammed Trump for "sowing chaos" successful a statement released Saturday. 

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"The clip is present to halt the usage of these illegitimate tactics and to guarantee that DHS complies with the instrumentality and with the norms of communal quality decency," Nadler and Raskin reason successful the letter. 

DHS did not instantly supply a comment. 

Fox News Digital's Louis Casiano contributed to this report.