Just look here...'IT'S SHOW TIME!'.......today 7 Democrat'Congressmen gain entry to NJ 'immigration detention center' after arguing with cops, literally banging on the door.... Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said that he was forcibly holding a door open at the site....We have gotten the door open at the Elizabeth, NJ ICE detention center and refusing to let it close until we are given access to the detainees, he wrote...Now theyre asking us to empty our pockets like were common criminals? Rep. Bill Pascrell of New Jersey tweeted. We are duly elected Members of Congress and we want access, he wrote.
Pro-immigrant protesters gathered outside the immigration detention facility as the congressmen banged on the door to gain access.
Nadler was joined at the facility Sunday by New Jersey Reps. Pascrell, Frank Pallone and Albio Sires, as well as fellow New York Reps. Hakeem Jeffries, Carolyn Maloney and Adriano Espaillat.
After officials at the facility relented and allowed the Democratic representatives to access the building, the reporters who had been following the congressmen apparently staged their own act of defiance.
With congressional Members just allowed inside to see prisoners and conditions, jail staff now asking all press to leave and go outside, Pascrell wrote. Press and staff refusing to move.