This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
In the wake of criminal charges filed against a Democrat congresswoman involved in a scuffle at a federal ICE holding facility in New Jersey, a congressman on the House Homeland Security Committee is promising more unannounced visits in the future.
"I promise you there's gonna be more un-noticed visits by my colleagues where they show up and they better be let in," U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., told MSNBC on Tuesday.
Swalwell was commenting on the case of Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., who is now facing federal charges for assaulting, impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officers over when she barged into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility without permission.
"Representative LaMonica McIver assaulted, impeded, and interfered with law enforcement in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 111 (a)(1)," explained Alina Habba, the acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey.
"That conduct cannot be overlooked by the chief federal law enforcement official in the State of New Jersey, and it is my Constitutional obligation to ensure that our federal law enforcement is protected when executing their duties."
Eric "Red Line" Swalwell: Trump admin agencies not worthy of advance notice on ICE facility visits because they lie and doctor evidence —
— like they did with Abrego-Garcia who is now in a "death camp."
Swalwell promises more unannounced visits like McIver's are on the way. pic.twitter.com/kCpFZ5lsGK
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Swalwell explained: "Typically, we would be able to give them notice when we visit a facility and the law says you don't have to give them notice. But they're not worthy of much of a heads-up because of the amount of lies that they've told the American people and the amount of lies that they've been called out on by judges across the country.
"And last week we saw in the Homeland Security Committee, Secretary [Kristi] Noem would not even acknowledge that they are detaining somebody indefinitely at a death camp in El Salvador based on Photoshopped, doctored evidence.
"And so, if they're willing to lie and doctor evidence to put someone in jail for an indefinite amount of time, we can't trust them. So we have to do our oversight duties, and she (McIver) was in the right to go and do that."
The congressman was referring to the case of deported criminal illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom many in the national news media simply refer to as a "Maryland father."
"That woman was out of control," said President Donald Trump Tuesday when asked about McIver's arrest during a visit to Capitol Hill. "The days of that crap are over in the country. We're gonna have law and order."
Swalwell is perhaps most infamous for his alleged relationship with a Chinese spy.
