WASHINGTON – With help from five Republicans, the U.S. House tabled a motion Wednesday by Rep. Clay Higgins to censure a Democratic colleague who got in trouble with immigration officers while visiting an ICE facility.

The House voted 215 to 207 to drop Higgins’ resolution that would have punished New Jersey Democratic Rep. U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver.

She faces three federal charges of assaulting, resisting, interfering and impeding federal officers during an official May oversight visit to the immigration detention facility in her Newark district.

McIver pleaded not guilty. She could face a maximum of eight years in prison on two of the counts and another year in the third – if the federal courts pursue the charges.

“We were all elected to do the people’s work,” McIver told Insider

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