A high -level democrat attacked President Donald Trump and the Kristi Noem internal security department to “sow chaos” after the DHS agents arrested a member of the staff of his New York office.
New York Representative Jerry Nadler criticized administration tactics after Gothamist released A video that showed an agent handcuffing a crying staff member while another agent tried to enter the office of Nadler, who shares a building with an immigration courthouse. A second agent accused the office of “hosting rioters” after demonstrators outside the building went against DHS’s decision of arresting a high school student from the Bronx.
“President Trump and the Ministry of Internal Security Sowing Chaos in our communities, using intimidation tactics against citizens and non-citizens in an imprudent and dangerous way,” said Nadler in a statement. “”In a most recent and deeply disturbing incident, DHS agents have entered my Congress office forcefully and handcuffed a member of my staff. “”
Nadler, who previously was a classification member of the Chamber’s Judicial Committee, said that he was “alarmed by aggressive and heavy tactics that DHS employed in New York and through the country”.
Nadler warned that no one was immune to the Trump administration’s hard intake tactics.
“If this can happen in a member of the Congress Bureau, it can happen to anyone – and it happens,” Nadler said in his statement to Gothamist SATURDAY. “I call President Trump and the DHS to stop the use of these dangerous tactics and to abandon the use of the accelerated referral process, which denies the regular procedure to immigrants and citizens.”
A spokesman for the DHS said the police tried to carry out a “security check” on Wednesday at the office after information reporting demonstrators within Nadler’s office, saying that they were “concerned about the security of federal employees” and wanted to “ensure the safety and well-being of those present”. The spokesman said the agents had found four “individuals” in the office.
He said one of the individuals had become “conflicting and physically blocked” agents to enter the office, although he indicated that no arrest had been made and that everyone was “released without any other incident”.
A Nadler spokesperson did not respond to an immediate request for additional comments.
Hakeem Jeffries’s minority head, said on Sunday that the administration “was clearly trying to intimidate the Democrats in the same way they were trying to intimidate the country”.
The incident followed a series of disputes between Noem DHS and the Democrats. Federal agents decree Newark mayor, New Jersey, Ras Baraka last month when he joined the Democrats in the House during a visit to a new immigration detention center, although the administration later abandoned criminal charges.
However, the administration then charged one of the Democrats, the representative Lamonica Mciver, of criminal assault, saying that she used her forearms to prevent agents from arresting Baraka. McIiver described the accusations of “purely political”.
Agents too decree Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan after the government accused her of helping an arrest of undocumented immigrants by leading him from her courtroom. Democrats and former judges criticized arrest as an attack on the justice system.
