Alina Habba confronts New Jersey officials, including Mayor LaMonica MacGyver and Governor Phil Murphy, over a lawsuit filed regarding her detention at the Delancey Center. While MacGyver claims she was arrested protecting criminals, footage shows her shouting "fascists" at ICE agents, facing up to eight years in federal prison for impeding law enforcement. Habba refuses to admit wrongdoing or sign an agreement, asserting she performed her duty and is willing to face charges rather than compromise her integrity, highlighting a clash between congressional duty and local political pressure. [Automatically generated summary]
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Alina Haba Goes on Warpath00:07:12
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Hello, everyone.
Welcome to the big show.
We got a lot.
And I mean, a lot going on right now.
Alina Haba is on the warpath.
And you know what?
She means business and she's not the kind to suffer fools gladly, shall we say?
We're going to get right into that.
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I got some personal news, very good news to share with you towards the end.
But we start today on Alina Haba.
Alina Haba, who is just going straight after everyone in New Jersey who is in her way.
And there are kind of a few of them right about now.
I'm talking about LaMonica MacGyver.
I'm talking about the mayor of Newark, New Jersey.
Oh, I'm talking about the governor.
The governor.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Phil Murphy of New Jersey.
This is really setting up in so many ways this tension between state and federal government, right?
The state and the feds.
That is the problem that we keep seeing over and over and over again.
And unfortunately, it comes down to party lines.
Anyway, Alina Haba is getting sued.
We told you yesterday about this.
by Ross Baccara.
Ross Baccara, who is the mayor there of Newark, New Jersey, has sued Alina Haba.
He's suing the Trump administration because he says, you know what, this was not unfair.
You guys put me in jail when I was out there trying to protect the illegal criminals, criminals that were in Delancey Center in Newark.
This is this immigration detention center.
Alina's response, pretty frank, shocking, shocking leak from Mayor Baracka's team.
He's planning to sue the feds.
Well, what do you know?
My advice to the mayor.
Feel free to join me in prioritizing violent crime and public safety.
Far better use, far better use of time for the great citizens of New Jersey.
You know, she's from New Jersey originally.
This was the thing that went down, right?
By the way, LaMonica LeGuire.
LaMonica.
Yeah, I kind of like saying that.
I have a feeling I'm going to say it.
You have to say it a few more times around.
She's facing up to eight years.
She's the lady in red.
Take a look at what went down.
This is just a few weeks ago at the DeLancey Immigration Center.
Get off of her!
Get off of her!
You cannot push it!
You cannot hold this!
You can't push members of Congress!
This is peaceful!
You are fascists!
Get off of her!
You are fascists!
This is peaceful!
Get off of her!
Did you hear that?
You are fascist!
This is peaceful!
Get over there!
Get over there!
You hear that?
This is peaceful.
You are fascist.
By the way, La Monica is the one in red.
You can't miss her.
Anyway, long story short, yeah, they took in the mayor of Newark, New Jersey.
But then you know what they did?
They released him.
They said, you know, we're not actually going to follow through with this arrest.
Apparently he was far more willing to talk with them, work with them than this one, La Monica, again in red.
And again, if you are listening on Spotify, we thank you for that.
We're looking at footage here of LaMonica MacGyver in that crowd.
Again, you can depict her pretty carefully because she's the lady in red, the lady in red who basically was pushing herself up against the ICE agents.
Now, she can do eight years for that.
Okay.
And, and you know who Alina is not backing down.
So back to Ross for a second.
So again, he's suing Alina.
She's like, yeah, that's exactly what your constituency wants to see.
Again, remember just for a second, guys.
This is at a detention center for people who are here illegally and have committed crimes.
Okay, for some reason that keeps getting lost.
Somehow these are the innocent victims, right?
In all of this.
And he's like, wow, you know, this was so much turmoil and now there's been damage to my brand and my name.
I'm like, are you kidding me, buddy?
You're the one who's like campaigning on this.
This is exactly what you want.
This is what they all want.
This is what La Monica wants, right?
She's blaming, believe it or not, ICE for the skirmish you just saw.
Charges are absurd.
You know, it's ridiculous.
I was there to do my job along with my other colleagues.
We have done this before.
This is our obligation to do.
It's in our job description to have oversight over a facility.
And the entire situation was escalated by ICE.
They caused the confrontation.
Homeland came and, you know, caused this chaos that we see.
It was a very tense situation, but it could have been, you know, easily not, it could have easily not happened.
Really?
Yeah.
I'll tell you how it could not have happened, La Monica, is if you actually conducted yourself more appropriately.
If you had decided to actually make an appointment, like that's kind of the way it's done.
And they would have given you an appointment and you could have gone in and done your little inspection and all could have been well and fine.
But no, you guys decided to make a big thing of this.
So Ross Baraka, he spent every day there for about a week until finally, Like the protests started growing and growing and growing and growing and La Monica descends on the scene and a few others, by the way.
And then by then, it got into what I showed you before, where things just started getting a little bit unruly.
A little bit unruly to the point where La Monica, you know, I can't help saying it over and over and over again.
I do speak Italian and Spanish, so, you know, a chance to work on the accent.
La Monica in red, she's out there pushing her way through to the point where they did eventually get some video of her there pushing her way into an ICE agent, as you have seen.
All right.
So again, lady in red and look at her.
I mean, at that point, like, why don't you just say to yourself, you know what?
This is kind of getting out of control.
Maybe I'm going to back off.
Maybe this isn't really appropriate for me as a member of Congress to be doing this.
Why don't I just kind of extricate myself, extricate myself from the scene and follow up on this in kind of a more dignified manner?
But no, that is not what she did.
It's not what she wants to do.
And then, When Alina Haba said, hey, you know what?
We worked something out with Baraka.
Let's work something out with you.
She didn't want that.
No, she's willing to face the eight years in federal prison because she would not admit that she was impeding law enforcement.
This is what she told Jen Psaki on her Whoopty Dipsy show.
More on that coming up.
Ratings bad, bad, bad, bad.
But no wonder, right?
Well, Haba said you had declined every opportunity to come to a resolution.
You said they wanted you to admit to something you didn't do.
What did they want you to admit to?
Refusing to Admit Guilt00:00:53
I mean, there was a lot.
We've had a week of back and forth with them.
And I will say that I did not waver.
You know, I showed up there to do my job and she wanted me to admit to doing things, all of these different lists of things that she said that I did.
Like what?
I mean, from things of impeding, you know, I just have to stop it.
Yeah, like maybe impeding.
We don't have to go back to the video, but you guys saw it.
There were some other things in there that she put in there, but I can't remember exactly what it was.
But she wanted me to admit to these things, sign an agreement to them.
And I'm not doing that.
No, I'm going to ride this for all it's worth into a bigger position, maybe a senator of New Jersey one day.
Except that, you know what?
Most people don't actually like this behavior.
Most people look at this and say, why didn't you just make an appointment?
Most people look at this and say, this is really not, shall we say, in keeping with a member of Congress.