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A Dangerous Precedent: Criminalizing Black Women’s Leadership and Silencing Our Right to Serve
When Oversight Becomes a Crime: What the Charges Against Rep. McIver Reveal About Our Democracy
Earlier this month, Congresswoman LaMonica McIver of New Jersey’s 10th District visited the Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark, joined by fellow Representatives Bonnie Watson Coleman and Rob Menendez. Their goal was clear and constitutional: conduct oversight of a federally operated immigration detention center that has drawn widespread concern over its conditions and its connection in an alarming rise in unjust arrests, particularly of Black and Brown immigrants.