House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., warned the Trump administration against arresting Democrat lawmakers who have been accused of assaulting federal immigration officers at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Newark, New Jersey, calling it a “red line.”

“They know better than to go down that road,” Jeffries told reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday, The Hill reported.

Jeffries was responding to Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, who told CNN over the weekend that there will “likely be more arrests coming” after Friday’s protests led to the arrests of several people, including Newark Democrat Mayor Ras Baraka.

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