Rep. McIver After Being Charged with Assault on ICE Agents: ‘I’m Not Going to Roll Over and Stop Doing My Job’

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McIVER: "Well, the Justice Department and Alina Habba wanted me to admit to doing something that I did not do, and I was not going to do that. Once again, I came there to do my job and conduct an oversight visit, and they wanted me to say something differently. And I‘m not doing that. I‘m not going to roll over and stop doing my job because they, you know, don‘t want me to or they want to neglect the fact that we, you know, we needed to be in there to see what was going on in that detention center. And so, you know, absolutely no, I was not going to do that. You know, and I think I‘m open. I‘ve always been open to having conversations. You know, we have to have good government. We have to be able to conduct ourselves and be professionals. You know, in this work, this is what the folks that I represent expect for me to do. And so definitely, always open to conversations. But I‘m not going to admit to something that I did not do, and no one‘s going to stop me from serving the people in New Jersey, because that‘s what they expect for me to do."