Prosecutors charge McIver with pushing, grabbing agents while trying to stop mayor's arrest | Jefferson City News-Tribune

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Members of Congress are authorized by law to go into federal immigration facilities as part of their oversight powers, even without advance notice.
43% : The complaint says she attempted to stop the arrest of the mayor and pushed into agents for Homeland Security Investigations and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
37% : She denounced the charge as "purely political" and said prosecutors are distorting her actions in an effort to deter legislative oversight.
33% : The department of justice and ICE are weaponizing this place.
23% : Within minutes of Habba's announcement, McIver's Democratic colleagues cast the prosecution as an infringement on lawmakers' official duties to serve their constituents and an effort to silence their opposition to an immigration policy that helped propel the president back into power but now has emerged as divisive fault line in American political discourse.

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