House rejects the effort to censor the congresswoman about the visit to the Immigrant Detention Center

Washington (AP) – The Chamber rejected a resolution to censor the Lamonica Mciver representative, DN.J., and withdraw it from a committee that supervises immigration and national security while facing federal charges derived from a visit to an immigration detention center.

The Chamber voted 215-207 to cover the measure, a sign that some were uncomfortable in the future, while McIver’s case is still pending in court. A trial has been scheduled in your case for November.

Democratic legislators unanimously voted to cover the resolution, which was sponsored by representative Clay Higgins, R-La. Five Republicans joined them and two others voted present. As the resolution read, some Democrats were outraged. “Liar,” some shouted. “Shame,” a Democratic legislator shouted. Many Republicans left the camera before the vote concluded. The Democrats cheered and hugged in Tally’s final reading.

“The attempt of censorship against me has failed. It was right. It was an unfounded and partisan effort to shut up,” Mciver wrote on social networks after the vote. “I was not chosen to play political games, I was chosen to serve. I will not go back. Now not. Never.”

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Republicans sought to punish McIver for a confrontation with the Federal Police during a visit to Congress to a new immigration detention center in Newark, NJ McIver declared himself innocent of federal positions that accuse her of assaulting and interfering with immigration officers outside the center.

The resolution of censorship recounted how McIver alleges interfered with the ability of national security investigations officials to arrest an unauthorized visitor. He said he alleges that he hit his forearm in the body and forcibly grabbed an HSI officer. The resolution also said that the body camera and other video tests supported the accusations made in the federal accusation.

The measure said that such actions were not reflected credible in the Chamber and that their continuous service in the National Security Committee was a significant conflict of interest. The committee portfolio includes the supervision of the United States Immigration and Customs Control Agency, which operates the detention center in which McIver tried to enter.

The effort had the support of the Leadership of the Republican Party. Some Republicans expressed their dismay with the result.

“We have a Congress member who assaulted an ice officer. I don’t even know what we are doing,” said Representative Byron Donalds from Florida.

Donalds said he did not know why some Republicans broke ranges to support the motion to present the resolution of censorship.

Democratic representative Yvette Clarke, president of Caucus Negro de Congress, said that McIver’s vote was “a breath of fresh air in such a toxic environment.”

Mciver won a special election last year after Democratic representative Donald Payne Jr. died in office. She won a complete period of two years in November.

McIver joined two other Democrats in New Jersey, representatives Bonnie Watson Coleman and Rob Menéndez, during a visit to a private installation of 1,000 beds that ICE is using as a detention center. The mayor of Newark, the Democrat Ras Baraka, was arrested after the officials decided that he was not authorized to enter. That load was then removed. Baraka is demanding for what he said it was a malicious prosecution.

Parts of the confrontation can be seen in a video clip of almost two minutes of the visit published by the Department of National Security.

The video shows McIver on the side of the installation of a chain wire fence just before Baraka’s arrest on the side of the street of the fence, where other people had been protesting. She and uniformed officials are seen going through a door from the fence, and she joins others shouting that must surround the mayor. The video then shows McIver in a group very full of people and officers. At one time, his left elbow and then his right side push an officer with a dark face that covers and an olive green uniform with the word “police.”

McIver was accused of three positions of assisting, resisting, preventing and interfering with federal officials. Two of the counts have a maximum sentence of up to eight years in prison. The third is a minor crime with a maximum punishment of one year in prison.

The Chamber has censored the members 28 times before, but the punishment has increasingly delivered partisan in recent years.

The Democrats retaliate only a few hours before the McIver vote with a resolution its own censorship against the representative Cory Mills, Republican of Fla., Who has been accused by a head of the beauty contest to threaten to release intimate videos and private images of it after her ended her romantic relationship, according to a report presented before the application of the law. Mills has denied accusations.

Mills also faces an ethics investigation of whether he violated campaign financing laws or had federal contracts while in office.

Democratic efforts to pay attention to Mills seemed to serve as a warning to Republicans who were prepared to undertake similar censorship resolutions in response to McIver orientation.

“There are colleagues on the other side of the corridor who have very serious charges against them, and we don’t want to have to unpack that for the American people,” said Clarke.