Last Thursday afternoon, Parliament Speaker Mike Johnson, smiling at the entrance to the Capitol while deviating from the questions of the journalists about the latest anger of the week. A few hours ago, in Los Angeles, Alex Badilla, the major democratic Senator of California, boycotted a press conference held by Christie Nayyoud, Minister of Internal Security, then delivered on the ground and valued by her federal agents. In a video clip of the accident, Badilla, in dark and wind trousers, identifies himself before Nayyim asked about the department’s deployment of the National Guard and the federal forces to the police protests in Los Angeles, “I saw the same video, which is a very brief video clip I think many people did so,” Johnson said. “Everyone can extract their own conclusions.” He went on to say that he would support a censorship proposal, which, with a smile, added “inappropriately.”
Shortly after the video launch, the Trump administration responded to its usual willingness. Naim blamed Badilla for not getting to know himself, although the shots refuted her allegations. “From the moment the building entered, I face a member of the National Guard and the FBI. I asked,” well, because we are waiting, can we listen to the press conference? “They opened the door for me.” The Ministry of Internal Security continued to publish a statement on X, in which he falsely claimed that Padilla “retreated towards Minister Nayyoud” and “did not comply with the repeated orders of the officers,” adding that the secret service “I think was an attacker and the officers were acting appropriately.”
At that time, the arrest of US Senators in Los Angeles was the latest incident in a mode of aggressive actions taken by the administration against the elected Democrats and their allies. Each case has been linked to Trump’s migration. In late April, the FBI was arrested and charged with the Wisconsin County Judge, Hana Dogan, claiming that he had helped illegal immigrant in evading the executive officers of immigration and customs in the local court. (I acknowledged that she was not guilty.) On May 9, Ice The agents arrested the mayor of Newark, Ras ParkAnd Lamonica Mciver, a member of the US Congress, is outside the Immigration Prison in New Jersey. Baraca, who was accused of assaulting private property, was held for five hours before her release; The charges were dropped, and a few weeks later, Parka filed a defamation lawsuit against Alina Habba, the former personal lawyer of Trump and the interim American lawyer in New Jersey. (The lawsuit indicates a stream of misleading allegations that Habba was published on social media about the actions of Parka, saying, among other things, that “he chose about a good mind to ignore the law.” The charges against me is a purely political, ” He said. “They are wondering and distorting my actions.” If convicted, she faces up to eight years in prison. On May 28, the agents of the National Security Ministry entered the New York City Office of the US Democratic Congress, Gereold Nadler, in the pursuit of an optimal intermediate investigation who protested during Ice Immigrant officers were arrested outside the courtroom. Moments after the agents arrived at the door, they drafted employees, claiming that when they demanded entering without a judicial order, they were physically impeded. On June 17, less than a week after the arrest of Badilla, Ice Agents processing and handcuffs Brad LanderNew York City Observer and a candidate for the mayor, where he accompanied a person outside the Migration Court. “You sweat,” one of the factors told him, according to registration. Lander replied, while he was caught near the elevator, “I am not ancient. I am standing here in the hallway.” He later accused him of the Ministry of National Security “assaulting law enforcement and disabilities of a federal officer.”
Accidents that involve all legislators have a common thing: in every case, video evidence contradicts or undermines the administration’s account of what happened. The charges against the actor Mciver are undoubtedly the most dangerous. However, she and two other actors-Rob Mindez, Bonnie Watson Coleman, both Democrats in New Jersey-presented them to the facility on the ninth of May to practice an ideal concession: Congress members are allowed to visit and search attention facilities immigration, as part of their ideal role. This practice has become somewhat common in recent years. The facility in Newark, which is called Dylani Hall, opened the first week of May, a few months after the Ministry of National Security signed a contract worth $ 1.2 billion with Al -Geo Company in the Private Prison for its operation. Baraka, who was at the time the ruler, objected to the contract and asked questions about the aspects of the construction permit. When he tried to visit the facility in the past, Geo employees removed him.
The three members of Congress arrived on May 9 around the back. To enter the facility, visitors pass through an external gate and in a position of internal cars leading to the main compound. They were waiting for about an hour when Mindez noticed a number of militants Ice Agents who leave the building in the parking lot. He told me: “I have never seen a handful of armed officers in a detention center.” “These men were clearly showing, for example, the way you expect them if they were about to go out to the field.” Remember thinking, “What is about to get off?”
After that, Mindez realized that Baraca had appeared, but this hardly made it clear the reason for the presence of many agents. He said: “I frankly thought that there would be a major major raid, because I have never seen this armed agents.” According to the Barka lawsuit, the actor Makver invited him to meet the Congress delegation outside the facility after his tour. However, at 1:50 eveningHe called a guard stationed at the external portal Parka at home, claiming that he would “calm the crowd” that gathered abroad to protest. After about forty -five minutes, he approached senior Undersecretary of the Ministry of National Security to Park and ordered him to leave. He remained, but just shortly. By that time, members of Congress saw Parka inside the gate, and they walked to consult with him. The agent returned and threatened to arrest Barka, who left the building to public property abroad.
What happened after that is less clear. Mindez says he heard part of a phone conversation in which the Undersecretary of the Ministry of National Security said, he apparently speaking to a president, something about the decision to arrest Parka. A large group of agents and then left the facility. “We were ready to go to take the tour,” Mainndes told me. “The mayor came out. The situation has ended.” However, he continued, “This is when they decided to open the gate, as they knew that there were all these people who were in public property protesting.” It was imperative that the situation escalated: the armed federal agents were close to a crowd outside the facility’s lands. Actors went to join Parka. Videos show that they are stumbling and pushing them in SCRUM. There are a few questions that Makifer contacted with a federal agent. But the footage barely shows what she accused of – it seems that she is getting herself. “You cannot talk to a member of Congress like this,” McGever can be heard at some point. A spokesman for the Ministry of National Security at a later time, without evidence, claimed that members of Congress were part of “mob” and “assault on us Ice Enforcement officers, including a body criticizing a female Ice officer.”
Robert Jotim, Chief of Staff Nadler, was astonished by the descriptions of the enlarged government for its confrontations with public employees. He said, “You are exercising your rights. They do what they want. Then you discover it after the truth.” The Manhattan Immigration Court is located on the fifth floor of the Federal Building in 201 Varick Street; Nader office on the sixth floor. On the afternoon of May 28, Ice The officers appeared on the fifth floor with pictures of the immigrants who were to appear before the court. Due to the management of the administration, the arrests in the courts and the routine checkpoints on Ice Offices, demonstrators and clerics have appeared to document the activity. Two Nader employees went to the basement to monitor, and when the tensions erupted, the activists called on the upper floor to defuse the situation. Officers of the Federal Protection Service, the DHS agency guarding government property and employees, followed them to the Nader office.
