NJ congresswoman faces court Tuesday over heated ICE facility clash

A member of congress is expected to appear in New Jersey, who participated in an expected fight outside a migration facility last month before the court later to confront charges due to the obstruction of internal security agents.

Representative Lamonica McGever, DN.J. In the trilogy of the factors that federal officers disabled by force while trying to arrest the Nark Mayor Ras Barka at the Dylani Hall immigration facility on May 9. She says she will call not to be convicted of accusations.

McVer and two other members of Congress said they were conducting a visit to Congress coinciding with the immigration protest, when a clash fell with federal agents.

Blue State ice Facility intensifies security with new beads amid clashes with demonstrators

According to a press release of the Ministry of Justice, Barraka was allowed to enter the guaranteed area of ​​the facility, then the Federal agents warned him against leaving, but he refused to do so.

When the officers tried to arrest Parka, he claimed that McVer prevented them, put her arms around the mayor, and “criticized her help” to an officer while seizing another and using each of her assistants to strike the second officer by force.

Each of the first two charges holds an eight -year prison sentence. The third holds up to one year.

Accusation is charged with the US lawyer in New Jersey County Alina Habba, which represented President Donald Trump between his presidency. Hapba previously said that Mciver “attacked, hinders, and overlapped with law enforcement.”

McFer condemned these charges earlier this month, and likened them to previous attempts by the Trump administration to silence political opponents.

The US lawyer in New Jersey Alina Hapba is being charged against Representative Lamonica McGever due to the Dylani Hall incident earlier in May. (AP/Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The legislators of the “storming” of the ice attachment say, they say that the Trump administration “is lying at all levels.”

“The facts of this issue will prove that I was doing my job simply and will present these measures to what they are: a rude attempt to political intimidation,” McFer said in a statement.

“This is the indictment is nothing more justified than the original charge and is an effort by the Trump administration to avoid accountability for the chaos that caused it and involved me from doing the work that I was elected to do,” I continued.

“But this will not succeed – I will not be afraid. The facts beside us, I will enter into a non -guilty approval, and I am grateful to my community support, and I look forward to my day in court.”

The Democratic Democratic Mayor Ras Barka speaks outside the Dylani Hall Ice facility during the protest. Security personnel stand in front of the Dilani Hall on May 7, 2025. (Getty Images and AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Parka was arrested, but he was charged with assaulting him.

Meanwhile, the accountability campaign, a liberal monitoring group, submitted an ethical complaint to the lawyer’s ethics office in New Jersey on Tuesday, accusing Hiba of serious moral misconduct related to its trial of McFar and the arrest of Park.

The complaint claims that she was a politically targeted in response to participating in a visit to protest and supervision because their policies are inconsistent with the Trump administration policies.

Jasmine Baehr from Fox News contributed to this report.