GOP rep: Threat to arrest Democratic colleagues 'very drastic'

[Jilly_in_VA]

In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” McCaul was asked about ICE arresting the mayor of Newark, N.J. outside a federal detention center on Friday and about new threats of arrest against three members of Congress who similarly tried to access the detention center.

“Should ICE be arresting or even threatening to arrest members of Congress?” host Ed O’Keefe asked McCaul in the interview.

“I mean, that’s obviously a very drastic move. I would only do that if they were complicit with a crime,” McCaul responded. “I don’t know all the facts behind this.”

McCaul noted that members of Congress have the right to access federal detention facilities, adding that he did not know if the three members of Congress — New Jersey Democrats Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rob Menendez and LaMonica McIver — were otherwise disrupting law enforcement.

“If they were just visiting a detention center, that’s- I’ve done that many times. If they’re disrupting law enforcement, that’s another question,” McCaul said.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5295361-mccaul-threatens-arrest-democrats-ice/

Which, of course, they were not. And that's the point.